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EUPHONY

Dictionary entry overview: What does euphony mean?

• EUPHONY (noun)
The noun EUPHONY has 1 sense:

1. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds

Familiarity information: EUPHONY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EUPHONY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

euphony; music

Context example:

he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes

Hypernyms ("euphony" is a kind of...):

auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)

Domain member category:

reharmonise; reharmonize (provide with a different harmony)

harmonise; harmonize (write a harmony for)

orchestrate (write an orchestra score for)

instrument; instrumentate (write an instrumental score for)

transcribe (rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "euphony"):

music of the spheres (an inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by the celestial)

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