harmony

See also: Harmony

English

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Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία ‎(harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹməni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːməni/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony ‎(countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04
2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

Related terms

Related terms

harmonic harmonics harmonious harmonize

harmonizer inharmonious philharmonic

Derived terms

Derived terms

close harmony disharmony imitative harmony

polyharmony vowel harmony

Translations

agreement or accord

• Arabic: اِنْسِجَام m ‎(insijām), تَوَافُق m ‎(tawāfuq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和諧 (zh), 和谐 (zh) ‎(héxié), 和睦 (zh) ‎(hémù), 調和 (zh), 调和 (zh) ‎(tiáohé)

• Czech: soulad (cs) m
• Dutch: samenklank (nl) m, eendracht (nl) f, overeenstemming (nl) f
• Esperanto: harmonio
• Finnish: sopusointu, harmonia (fi)
• French: harmonie (fr) f
• German: Harmonie (de) f, Einklang (de) m
• Greek: αρμονία (el) f ‎(armonía), αρμονικότητα (el) ‎(armonikótita)
• Icelandic: jafnvægi (is) n, samlyndi (is) n, samræmi (is) n
• Indonesian: keselarasan (id)
• Italian: armonia (it) f

• Japanese: 調和 (ja) ‎(ちょうわ, chōwa)
• Norman: harmonie f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاهه‌نگ (ku) ‎(aheng)

• Latvian: harmonija f, saskaņa f
• Lithuanian: darna f, harmonija (lt) f
• Portuguese: harmonia (pt) f
• Romanian: armonie (ro) f
• Russian: созву́чие (ru) n ‎(sozvúčije), согла́сие (ru) n ‎(soglásije), гармо́ния (ru) f ‎(garmónija)
• Scottish Gaelic: rèite f, rèiteachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: sazvučje (sh) n, sklad (sh) m, skladnost (sh) f, harmonija (sh) f
• Slovak: súlad m
• Spanish: armonía (es)

pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 諧和 (zh), 谐和 (zh) ‎(xiéhé), 和諧 (zh), 和谐 (zh) ‎(héxié)

• Czech: soulad (cs) m, harmonie (cs) f
• Esperanto: harmonio
• Finnish: sopusointu, harmonia (fi)
• French: harmonie (fr) f
• German: Harmonie (de) f, Wohlklang (de) m
• Greek: αρμονία (el) f ‎(armonía)
• Icelandic: samhljómur (is) m
• Italian: armonia (it) f
• Japanese: 調和 (ja) ‎(ちょうわ, chōwa)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاهه‌نگ (ku) ‎(aheng)

• Latin: concentio f
• Manx: cochiaull
• Maori: reretahi
• Norwegian: harmoni (no) m
• Persian: هارمونی (fa) ‎(hârmoni)
• Portuguese: harmonia (pt) f
• Romanian: armonie (ro) f
• Russian: гармо́ния (ru) f ‎(garmónija)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-cheòl m, co-fhuaim m, co-sheirm f
• Serbo-Croatian: sazvučje (sh) n, sklad (sh) m, skladnost (sh) f, saglasje (sh) n
• Slovene: sozvočje n, harmonija f
• Swedish: harmoni (sv) c
• Turkish: armoni (tr), uyum (tr), ahenk (tr)

music: the academic study of chords

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和聲學 (zh), 和声学 (zh) ‎(héshēngxué)

• Czech: harmonie (cs) f
• Finnish: sointuoppi
• German: Harmonie (de) f
• Greek: αρμονία (el) f ‎(armonía)
• Icelandic: hljómfræði f
• Irish: armóin f

• Italian: armonia (it) f
• Japanese: 和声学 ‎(わせいがく, waseigaku)
• Latin: concentio f
• Portuguese: harmonia (pt) f
• Romanian: armonie (ro) f
• Russian: гармо́ния (ru) f ‎(garmónija)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-sheirm f
• Swedish: harmonilära c
• Turkish: armoni (tr)

music: two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和聲 (zh), 和声 (zh) ‎(heshēng), 哈默妮 ‎(hāmònī)

• Dutch: samenklank (nl) m
• Finnish: sointu (fi)
• German: Harmonie (de) f
• Greek: αρμονία (el) f ‎(armonía), συγχορδία (el) f ‎(synchordía)
• Hungarian: akkord (hu)
• Icelandic: samhljómur (is) m
• Irish: armóin f
• Italian: armonia (it) f

• Japanese: ハーモニー ‎(hāmonī), 和声 (ja) ‎(わせい, wasei)
• Manx: cochiaull
• Portuguese: acorde (pt) m
• Romanian: armonie (ro) f
• Russian: гармо́ния (ru) f ‎(garmónija), созву́чие (ru) n ‎(sozvúčije), акко́рд (ru) m ‎(akkórd)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-sheirm f
• Serbo-Croatian: sazvučje (sh) n
• Slovene: sozvočje n, harmonija f
• Swedish: ackord (sv) n
• Turkish: armoni (tr)

External links

• harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• harmony in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911