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Definition: Harmonium |
HarmoniumNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonyms: HarmoniumSynonyms: organ (n), reed organ (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Harmonium |
| English words defined with "harmonium": Free reed ♦ Organ harmonium ♦ reed 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Harmonium (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "harmonium": organ harmonium. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 harmonista, harmónio. (various references) armoniu. (various references) фисгармония (American organ). (various references) harmonijum. (various references) armonio. (various references) harmonium. (various references) harmonyum, küçük org. (various references) фісгармонія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "harmonium": harmoniums. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "harmonium" (pronounced hÄrmō"nēum) |
| 6 | -m ō" n ē u m | ammonium, pandemonium. |
| 5 | -ō" n ē u m | gonium, plutonium, polonium, zirconium. |
| 4 | -n ē u m | condominium, geranium, hafnium, millennium, minium, neptunium, selenium, titanium, uranium. |
| 3 | -ē u m | alluvium, 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. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 6D 6F 6E 69 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-. -- --- -. .. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r m o n i u m |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426784798180758779 |
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