| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | har·mo·ny |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  här m -n |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. har·mo·nies
1. Agreement in feeling or opinion; accord: live in harmony. 2. A pleasing combination of elements in a whole: color harmony; the order and harmony of the universe. See synonyms at proportion. 3. Music a. The study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords. b. Simultaneous combination of notes in a chord. c. The structure of a work or passage as considered from the point of view of its chordal characteristics and relationships. d. A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear. 4. A collation of parallel passages, especially from the Gospels, with a commentary demonstrating their consonance and explaining their discrepancies. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English armonie, from Old French, from Latin harmonia, from Greek harmoni , articulation, agreement, harmony, from harmos, joint. See ar- in Appendix I.
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