HARP
Dictionary entry overview: What does harp mean?
• HARP (noun)
The noun HARP has 3 senses:
1. a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
2. a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
3. a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
Familiarity information: HARP used as a noun is uncommon.
• HARP (verb)
The verb HARP has 2 senses:
1. come back to
2. play the harp
Familiarity information: HARP used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HARP (noun)
Meaning:
A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("harp" is a kind of...):
chordophone (a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harp"):
aeolian harp; aeolian lyre; wind harp (a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them)
lyre (a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment)
Meaning:
A pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("harp" is a kind of...):
support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)
Meaning:
A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
harmonica; mouth harp; mouth organ; harp
Hypernyms ("harp" is a kind of...):
free-reed instrument (a wind instrument with a free reed)
• HARP (verb)
Meaning:
Come back to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
harp; dwell
Context examples:
Don't dwell on the past / She is always harping on the same old things
Hypernyms (to "harp" is one way to...):
ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Play the harp
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully
Hypernyms (to "harp" is one way to...):
play (perform music on (a musical instrument))
"Harp" entails doing...:
pick off; pluck; pull off; tweak (pull or pull out sharply)
Domain category:
music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
