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Euphonium

Definition: Euphonium

Euphonium

Noun

1. A bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Euphonium \Eu*pho"ni*um\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Euphony.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Euphonium

Non-English Usage: "Euphonium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (euphonium).

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Commercial Usage: Euphonium

DomainTitle

Books

  • Abracadabra Brass: Bass Clef for Trombone, Braitone, Euphonium (reference)

  • Abracadabra Brass: Treble Clef or Tenor Horn, Trombone, Baritone, Euphonium, Tuba (reference)

  • Art of Tuba and Euphonium (reference)

  • Concerto: Euphonium with CD (Audio) (reference)

  • Euphonium Music Guide (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Euphonium

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Usage Frequency: Euphonium

"Euphonium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Euphonium" is used about 12 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)91.67%11106,044
Unclassified Items8.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Euphonium

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  euphonium

110

  euphonium fingering

3

  euphonium music

6

  baritone euphonium

2

  euphonium king

5

  conn euphonium

2

  euphonium fingering chart

5

  euphonium solo

2

  besson euphonium

4

  euphonium mouthpiece

2

  euphonium yamaha

3

  belled double euphonium

2

  bell double euphonium

3

  association euphonium international tuba

2

  euphonium player

3

  sheet music for euphonium

2

  euphonium used

3

  willson euphonium

2

  euphonium history

3

  euphonium march

2

  tuba and euphonium

3

  euphonium sterling

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Euphonium

Language Translations for "euphonium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏بوق (blare, bugle, cornet, honk, horn, megaphone, proboscis, sound, toot, tootle, trump, trumpet). (various references)

   

Danish

  

barytonhorn (tenor tuba). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

eufonium (tenor tuba), tenortuba (tenor tuba), tenorbas (tenor tuba), bas (bass, bass voice, tenor tuba), bariton (baritone, tenor tuba). (various references)

   

French

  

euphonium, saxhorn, baryton. (various references)

   

German

  

Baryton Tuba (tenor tuba), Baryton (tenor tuba). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαξοκόρνα (fluegelhorn, saxhorn, tenor tuba), βαρύτονο (tenor tuba). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

baritontuba. (various references)

   

Italian

  

bombarda (tenor tuba), baritone (tenor tuba). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

euphoniumay

   

Portuguese

  

eufono (tenor tuba), eufónio (tenor tuba), êufo (tenor tuba). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แตรทองเหลืองขนา"ใหญ่ชนิ"หนึ่ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tüba, bakır nefesli çalgı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Euphonium

Derivations

Words beginning with "euphonium": euphoniums. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Euphonium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euphonia, euphoniom, euphonius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Euphonium"

Words rhyming with "euphonium" (pronounced 'Eu*pho"ni*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Euphonium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-m-n-o-p-u-u"

-3 letters: impone, inhume, phenom.

-4 letters: hemin, monie, onium, opine, opium, ouphe, phone, unhip.

-5 letters: hemp, home, hone, hope, hump, meno, menu, meou, mien, mine, mope, moue, muni, muon, neum, nome, nope, omen, open, ouph, pein, peon, phon, pine, pion, poem, pome, pone, upon.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-m-n-o-p-u-u"
 

+1 letter: euphoniums.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Euphonium


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 75 70 68 6F 6E 69 75 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ..-    .--.    ....    ---    -.    ..    ..-    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#117 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0075 0070 0068 006F 006E 0069 0075 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

398782748180758779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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