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harmony

noun
/ˈhɑː.mə.ni/UK/ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/US/ˈhäː.mə.ni/

Etymology

From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie, armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”), either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “to fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). First attested in 1602. Doublet of harmonia.

  1. derived from *h₂er-✻ — “to join, fit, fix together”
  2. derived from ἁρμονία — “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”
  3. derived from harmonia
  4. derived from harmonie,armonie
  5. derived from armonye

Definitions

  1. Agreement or accord.

    • 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.

  2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

  3. The academic study of chords.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.

    2. The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies…

      The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.

      • 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 […]

    3. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of…

      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

    4. A female given name from Latin.

      • Following this formula, Harmony Hammond chose an exhibition of her dark, potent, meaning-layered paintings to be complemented by the work of Haleh Niazmand.
      • Growing up in a family that included 12 brothers and sisters, Harmony James needed to find something that set her apart from the crowd. And boy did she succeed in that one.

    5. A male given name from Latin.

      • In other transfer news, Betar Jerusalem added Eran Levy, Haim Megrelashvili and Nigerian Harmony Ikande to its squad on Tuesday.
      • Indie filmmaker Harmony Korine is no stranger to the weird. He's built an outsider-cool reputation thanks to his early script for the '90s drama "Kids" and his later increasingly bizarre films "Gummo" (about trailer park Americana), […]
      • Michelle worked with producer Harmony Samuels on most of the songs on the album.

    6. A number of places in Canada

      A number of places in Canada:

    7. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    8. The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.

      • Did you see where that retarded fucker Emerson Spaz ^([sic]) "that the Harmony shippers were (and still are) delusional. It's Romione all the way!" […]
      • Others, who shipped, which is the internet's way of saying supported, Harmony (Harry and Hermione), claimed superiority over the Romione shippers, claiming they always knew whom the true pairing should have been.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at harmony. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at harmony. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at harmony

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA