Harmony

Quick meaning: Harmony is a noun meaning Agreement or accord.

Meaning

Agreement or accord.

More Meanings

1. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
2. (music) The academic study of chords.
3. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
4. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
5. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

Example Sentences

a harmony of the Gospels

I did not know anything more about music,only about finger exercises, difficult tasks, contradictions in the theory of harmony, and tedious piano lessons from a sarcastic teacher who saw in my […]

December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweek 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.

Word Forms

• harmonies

Synonyms for harmony

Depending on context, synonyms include concordance, harmoniousness, concord.

Antonyms for harmony

Common opposites include dissonance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include concord, concordance, harmoniousness, accordance, accord, congruity.

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