Euphony

Definition: Euphony

Euphony

Noun

1. Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes".

Date "euphony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Etymology: Euphony \Eu"pho*ny\, noun; plural Euphonies. [Latin expression euphonia, Greek, from sweet-voiced; well sound, voice; akin to to speak: compare to the French expression euphonie.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Euphony

Synonym: music (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Elegance	Noun: elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; Adjective: concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism.
Voice	Orthoepy; cacoepy; euphony; (melody).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Euphony

English words defined with "euphony": Elison, euphonic, euphonical, Euphonies, Euphonism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "euphony": His ♦ One's. (references)

Etymologies containing "euphony": Euphoniad, Euphonicon, Euphonium, Euphonon ♦ Vocality. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Euphony : Indian classical music (reference) EUPHONY AND LOGOS. Essays in Honour of Maria Steffen-Batog and Tadeusz Batog. (reference) The Sound of Greek: Studies in the Greek Theory and Practice of Euphony (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Euphony 1-3/Lament/Musica Da C (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Euphony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Euphony" is used about 17 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)	100%	17	85,106

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Language		Translations for "euphony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		eufoni, bukurtingëllim. (various references)

Arabic		‏نزعة لتعديل الأصوات الكلامية, ‏عذوبة اللحن, ‏عذوبة الصوت. (various references)

Bulgarian		хармония (accord, agreement, balance, concord, harmony, rapport, tune, union, unison, unity), евфония, благозвучие (chime). (various references)

Czech		eufonie. (various references)

Farsi		سهولت ادا, عدم تنافر, صدای دلپذیر, خوش اهنگی کلمات . (various references)

French		euphonie. (various references)

German		Wohlklang (harmony, melodious sound, melodiousness). (various references)

Greek		ευφωνία. (various references)

Hebrew		מצלול (depth, diving, sound, tone), ת� עומ�", � ועם צלילים. (various references)

Hungarian		zengzetesség (sonority), jóhangzás, eufónia. (various references)

Italian		eufonia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		音便 (euphonic change), 語呂 (the sound), 諧調 (harmony, melody, unity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"び�" (euphonic change, gentle, peaceable, quiet), かいちょう (chairman, excellent condition, gambling, harmony, melody, president, sea bird, the ileum, unity, unveiling a Buddhist image), �"ろ (about, approximately, grounder, the sound, the sound or euphony of a sentence, time, toward). (various references)

Manx		jeih-lheeanys. (various references)

Pig Latin		euphonyay

Portuguese		eufônico (euphonious). (various references)

Romanian		eufonie. (various references)

Russian		благозвучие. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		eufonija. (various references)

Spanish		eufonía. (various references)

Swedish		välljud (harmony). (various references)

Thai		เสียงที่ไพเราะ. (various references)

Turkish		ses uyumu (cadence, consonance, intonation), kulağa hoş gelme, ahenk (accord, accordance, agreement, cadence, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concordance, concurrence, congruence, congruity, consonance, echo, harmony, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison). (various references)

Ukranian		милозвучність (sonority), евфонія, благозвучність. (various references)

Vietnamese		tiếng êm tai tính thuận tai. (various references)

Welsh		persain (euphonious, melodious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Euphony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ephony, euphon, Euphonia, euphory, euthuna, kupony, Xephon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "euphony" (pronounced 'Eu"pho*ny'): Acrimony, Acrophony, AEgophony, Agony, Agrimony, Agrotechny, Alimony, Alleghany, Amphictyony, Amphigony, Ancony, Anemony, Angelophany, Antagony, Anthropogeny, Antimony, Antiphony, Archegony, Astrogeny, Astrogony, Atony, Autochthony, Autophony, Averpenny, Balcony, Barony, Baryphony, Betony, Binny, Blenny, Branny, Brimstony, Briony, Bronchophony, Bryony, Cacophony, Cacotechny, Calumny, Cassidony, Castellany, Catchpenny, Ceremony, Chalcedony, Chapellany, Chatellany, Christophany, Colophany, Colophony, Conny, Coparceny. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-p-u-y"
	-1 letter: phoney.
	-2 letters: honey, ouphe, peony, phone, phony, yupon.
	-3 letters: hone, hope, hype, hypo, nope, open, ouph, peon, phon, pone, pony, puny, upon.
	-4 letters: eon, hen, hep, hey, hoe, hon, hop, hoy, hue, hun, hup, hyp, noh, one, ope, peh, pen, poh, pun, pye, upo, yeh, yen, yep, yon, you, yup.
	-5 letters: eh, en, he, ho.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-p-u-y"
	+3 letters: hypotenuse, neuropathy.
	+4 letters: hypotenuses, hypothenuse.
	+5 letters: autohypnoses, euphonically, euphoniously, hypothenuses, perionychium, polyanthuses, polyurethane.
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