HARMONIES

Definition: HARMONIES

HARMONIES

Plural

1. Of Harmony

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HARMONIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Crosswords: HARMONIES

English words defined with "HARMONIES": doo-wop. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Paramount Headliner: Himber Harmonies (1938)

Desert Harmonies (1935)

Radical Harmonies (2002)

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Domain	Title
Books	Color Harmonies (reference) Harmonies (reference) Harmonies & Hurricanes : Color and Line in Japanese Quilts (reference) Harmonies (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Gardener's Book of Color: Creating Contrasts, Harmonies, and Multicolor Themes in Your Garden (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que: Featuring 25 Hickory-Smoked Harmonies (Television Soundtrack) (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Humble shawl-weavers at Cashmere patiently creating wonderful harmonies of line and color--India...Credit: Library of Congress.
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Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Quick changing harmonies from piano, guitar, and percussion creating a new age style.		Rock-pop style piece with moving harmonies and a Cuban-influenced percussion. .
	Harmon-muted trumpet melody in a cool, easy swing style using modern harmonies.
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Author	Quotation
Napoleon Bonaparte	I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Nothing disturbed the funereal harmonies of that whole.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Barry Manilow	The best, and the studio singers, the background singers taught me how to do harmonies, how to sound different. It was a great three-year learning experience. It was college for me.
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"HARMONIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.25% of the time. "HARMONIES" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	98.25%	112	30,646
Noun (proper)	1.75%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	114	N/A

Language		Translations for "HARMONIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�'�谐 (Concordance, harmonious, harmonisation, harmonization, Harmony). (various references)

German		Wohlklänge (euphonies), Harmonien. (various references)

Korean		하모니 (Harmony). (various references)

Pig Latin		armonieshay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "HARMONIES": disharmonies, inharmonies. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"HARMONIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: armoniosa, Armonkeys, hammondest, Harminder, harmone, harmones, harmoni, harmonia, Harmonices, harmoniis, harmonisers, harmonius, Harmonys, Harnasie, hermeneus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "HARMONIES" (pronounced hÄ"rmunēz)
4	-u n ē z	aborigines, accompanies, agonies, balconies, colonies, companies, destinies, felonies, ironies, litanies, mutinies, peonies, symphonies, tyrannies.
3	-n ē z	afghanis, attorneys, bikinis, brownies, bunnies, ceremonies, chimneys, crannies, cronies, guineas, Honeys, journeys, kidneys, martinis, minis, moneys, monies, nannies, pennies, ponies, testimonies, tourneys.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: harmonise.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: harmines, horseman, menorahs, moraines, rhamnose, romaines, romanise.
	-2 letters: anomies, enamors, erasion, haemins, harmine, harmins, hernias, heroins, heroism, hoarsen, homines, inshore, marines, menhirs, menorah, merinos, mishear, moaners, mohairs, moraine, oarsmen, remains, romaine, seminar, senhora.
	-3 letters: ahorse, aimers, airmen, amines, amnios, animes, anomie, ariose, arisen, armies, arseno, arshin, arsine, arsino, ashier, ashmen, ashore, enamor, eonism, haemin, hansom, harems, harmin, hemins, hermai, hernia, heroin, herons, hoarse, homers, homier, honers, hosier, ihrams, inarms, inmesh, inseam, irones, isomer, mahoes, manors, marine, marish, masher, mashie, menhir, merino, mesian, miners, minors, moaner, mohair, moires, monies, monish, mosher, namers, norias, nosher, nosier, ramens, ramies, ramose, ramson, ransom, reason, remain, remans, rhinos, rimose, romans, semina, senhor, senior, senora, sermon, shairn, shiner, shmear, shoran, shrine.
	-4 letters: aeons, aimer, airns, amens, amies, amine, amino, amins, amirs, amnio, anime, anise, arise, arose, arson, ashen, earns, emirs, enorm, eosin, haems, hairs, hames, hanse, harem, hares, harms, hears, heirs, hemin, herma, herms, herns, heron, heros, hires, hoars, hoers, hoise, homer, homes, honer, hones, horas, horns, horse, hosen, ihram, inarm, irone, irons, mahoe, mains, mairs, manes, manor, manos, manse, mares, marse, marsh, maser, mason, means, mensa, meson, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, minor, mires, miser, moans, moira, moire, monas, monie, morae, moras, mores, morns, morse, namer, names, nares, naris, nears, nemas, noirs, noise, nomas, nomes, noria, noris, norms, ohias, omens, omers, ornis, osier, rains, raise, ramen, ramie, ranis, reams, reins, reman, resin, rheas, rhino, rimes, rinse, risen, roams, roans, roman, rosin, saner, sarin, senor, serai, serin, shame, share, sharn, shear, shier, shine, shire, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, simar, siren, smear, snare, snore, sonar.
	-5 letters: aeon, aero, ahem, aims, ains, airn, airs, amen, amie, amin, amir, amis, anes, anis, ares, arms, arse, earn, ears, emir, eons, eras, erns, eros, haem, haen, haes, hair, hame, hams, hare, harm, hear, heir, hems, hens, herm, hern, hero, hers, hies, hins, hire, hisn, hoar, hoer, hoes, home, hone, hons, hora, horn, hose, inro, ions, ires, iron, maes, main, mair, mane, mano, mans, mare, mars, mash, mean, meno, mesa, mesh, mhos, mien, mina, mine, mire, mirs, mise, miso, moan, moas, mons, mora, more, morn, mors, mosh, name, naoi, naos, near, nema, nims, noes, noir, noma, nome, noms, nori, norm, nose, nosh, oars, ohia, ohms, omen, omer, ones, ores, osar, rain, rami, rams, rani, rase, rash, ream, rein, reis, rems, resh, rhea, rhos, rias, rime, rims, rins, rise, roam, roan, roes, roms, rose, sain, same, sane, sari, seam, sear, semi, sera, sham, shea, shim, shin, shmo, shoe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: admonisher, harmonised, harmonises, harmonizes, monarchies, nomarchies, rhodamines.
	+2 letters: admonishers, chloramines, fisherwoman, foremanship, harmonizers, inharmonies, marchioness, misanthrope, semaphoring.
	+3 letters: apomorphines, chiromancers, chiromancies, chrominances, disharmonies, disharmonize, earthmovings, euchromatins, foremanships, horsemanship, housewarming, hydromancies, malnourished, menorrhagias, misanthropes, nomographies.
	+4 letters: aeromechanics, commandership, diathermanous, disharmonized, disharmonizes, enantiomorphs, fashionmonger, horsemanships, housewarmings, marchionesses, misanthropies, nitromethanes, normothermias, rhabdomancies, thermostating, thrombokinase.
	+5 letters: actinomorphies, cholestyramine, cinematographs, commanderships, fashionmongers, harmoniousness, hydromechanics, hydroxylamines, magnetospheric, metamorphosing, monosaccharide, neurochemicals, overenthusiasm, servomechanism, sportfisherman, thermodynamics, thermostatting, thrombokinases, trichomoniases.
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