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Harmonium

Definition: Harmonium

Harmonium

Noun

1. A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows.

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

Date "harmonium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Harmonium

DomainDefinitions

Fine Arts

A simple and inexpensive domestic-ecclesiastical means of music-making. Source: European Union. (references)
 A keyboard wind instrument in which the wind acts on a set of metal reeds. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Harmonium

Synonyms: organ (n), reed organ (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Harmonium

English words defined with "harmonium": Free reedOrgan harmoniumreed organ. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Harmonium" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (harmonium), Czech (harmonium), French (harmonium), German (harmonium, reed organ), Swedish (harmonium).

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Modern Usage: Harmonium

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Harmonium (2003)

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

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Commercial Usage: Harmonium

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Harmonium Tutor #1 - Introduction to Harmonium (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Harmonium

Illustrations:
Harmonium

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Usage Frequency: Harmonium

"Harmonium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Harmonium" is used about 49 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)100%4948,677

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

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Expression: Harmonium

Expression using "harmonium": organ harmonium. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Harmonium

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

harmonium

118

harmonium tab

8

harmonium tablature

6

harmonium play

4

harmonium parole

3

harmonium history

3

harmonium inc

3

harmonium partition

2

harmonium learn play

2

harmonium lesson

2

harmonium lyrics

2

indian harmonium

2

harmonium learn

2

discographie harmonium

2
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Modern Translations: Harmonium

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

Albanian

  

harmonium. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قدمية ضرب من الارغن. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хармониум (american organ, melodeon). (various references)

   

Czech

  

harmonium. (various references)

   

Danish

  

harmonium. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

harmonium. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

harmoni, urkuharmoni. (various references)

   

French

  

harmonium. (various references)

   

German

  

harmonium (reed organ). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αρμόνιο. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

harmónium. (various references)

   

Italian

  

armonium, armonio. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

風琴 (organ). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふうき" (organ). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armoniumhay

   

Portuguese

  

harmonista, harmónio. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

armoniu. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фисгармония (American organ). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

harmonijum. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

armonio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

harmonium. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

harmonyum, küçük org. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фісгармонія. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Harmonium

Derivations

Words beginning with "harmonium": harmoniums. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Harmonium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arminium, carbonium, harmoni, harmonia, harmonius, hasmonean, horminum, huronian, Jasminium. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Harmonium"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "harmonium" (pronounced hÄrmō"nēum)
6-m ō" n ē u mammonium, pandemonium.
5-ō" n ē u mgonium, plutonium, polonium, zirconium.
4-n ē u mcondominium, geranium, hafnium, millennium, minium, neptunium, selenium, titanium, uranium.
3-ē u malluvium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, gallium, gymnasium, helium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, medium, moratorium, myocardium, nephridium, niobium, nobelium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, palladium, paramecium, petroleum, planetarium, Plasmodium, podium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, psyllium, radium, requiem, rhodium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, tellurium, thallium, thorium, tritium, vanadium, yttrium.

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Anagrams: Harmonium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-m-n-o-r-u"

-3 letters: ammino, harmin, mohair, rumina, unhair.

-4 letters: amino, amnio, amour, houri, human, humor, ihram, imaum, inarm, manor, miaou, minor, mohur, moira, mourn, noria, onium, rhino, roman, unarm.

-5 letters: airn, amin, amir, ammo, arum, hair, harm, hoar, hora, horn, hour, imam, inro, iron, maim, main, mair, mano, maun, mina, moan, momi, mora, morn, muni, muon, mura, naoi, noir, noma, nori, norm, ohia, rain, rami, rani, roam, roan, ruin, unai.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-m-n-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: harmoniums.

 

+4 letters: immunotherapy.

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Alternative Orthography: Harmonium


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

48 61 72 6D 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)

01001000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#114 &#109 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0072 006D 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)

426784798180758779

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INDEX

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


  

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