harmony
IPA: hˈɑrmʌni
noun
- Agreement or accord.
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- (music) The academic study of chords.
- (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
- A female given name from Latin.
- A male given name from Latin.
- A number of places in Canada:
- A community in Rocky View County, Alberta.
- A community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia.
- A hamlet in Perth South, Perth County, Ontario.
- A community in North Dundas, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Illinois.
- A census-designated place in McHenry County, Illinois.
- A town in Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana.
- A town in Somerset County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Maryland.
- A city in Fillmore County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Quinton Township, Salem County, New Jersey.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.
- A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
- A town in Iredell County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma.
- A borough and historic district in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A village and census-designated place in Providence County, Rhode Island.
- An unincorporated community in Nacogdoches County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Grover, Marinette County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorprated community in Albany County, Wyoming.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Harmony Township.
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
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Examples of "harmony" in Sentences
- The residents lived in harmony.
- The team is in a perfect harmony.
- Harmony decries the sullen sunrise.
- I'll desist, in the interests of harmony.
- The separation of harmony and counterpoint is not absolute.
- One of the more common harmony processes is coronal harmony.
- Whether he and Dunleavy could have coexisted in harmony is debatable.
- Now you want everybody to quit doing it so that they can live in "harmony"?
- This harmony is a reason which a Triads can work with a Mafia, a CIA, as good as a Illuminati.
- Photographs by Pascal Chevallier Sled-riding skeletons, 16th-century portraits and little rice houses live in harmony within Sperone's Swiss retreat.
- Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the [Page 222] senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
- This division of the string made what we call harmony impossible; for by it the major third became a larger interval than our modern one, and the minor third smaller.
- The positions of the hands of the executants on the harps and lyres, as well as the use of short and long pipes, make it appear probable that something of what we call harmony was known to the Egyptians.
- Age and infirmity seem to be overlooked in what she calls the harmony between us, -- not perfect agreement of opinion (which I should regret, with almost fifty years of difference), but the spirit-union: can you say what it is?
- Anna had realized that for most people on Erde, even players, the term harmony had a far more general meaning in Liedwahr " something akin to "not creating dissonance" rather than the earthly technical musical meaning of parallel chords or supporting lines of music distinct from the melody line.