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euphony
 
SYLLABICATION:eu·pho·ny
PRONUNCIATION:  yf-n
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. eu·pho·nies
Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words.
ETYMOLOGY:French euphonie, from Late Latin euphnia, from Greek euphni, from euphnos, sweet-voiced : eu-, eu- + phn, sound; see bh-2 in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:eu·phonic (y-fnk) —ADJECTIVE
eu·phoni·cal·ly —ADVERB
 
 
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