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Definition: Euphonium |
EuphoniumNoun1. 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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Unclassified Items | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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 |
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| 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 eufono (tenor tuba), eufónio (tenor tuba), êufo (tenor tuba). (various references) แตรทองเหลืองขนา"ใหญ่ชนิ"หนึ่ง. (various references) tüba, bakır nefesli çalgı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "euphonium": euphoniums. (additional references) | |
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"Euphonium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euphonia, euphoniom, euphonius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 70 68 6F 6E 69 75 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u p h o n i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 0070 0068 006F 006E 0069 0075 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398782748180758779 |
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