Symphonic

  

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Symphonic

Definition: Symphonic

Symphonic

Adjective

1. Relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony; "symphonic choir".

2. Harmonious in sound; "the symphonic hum of a million insects".

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

Date "symphonic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)


Synonym: Symphonic

Synonym: symphonious (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Symphonic

English words defined with "symphonic": BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenOttorino RespighiRespighisymphoniousvan Beethoven. (references)

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Modern Usage: Symphonic

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Kimba the White Lion: Symphonic Poem (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: Symphonic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Harry Potter: Symphonic Suite (reference)

  • Haydn's Symphonic Forms: Essays in Compositional Logic (Oxford Monographs on Music) (reference)

  • Les Preludes and Other Symphonic Poems in Full Score (reference)

  • Symphonic Music (reference)

  • Symphonic Techniques Tuba (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  • Scryabin: Symphony No.2, Symphonic Poem, [IMPORT] (reference)

  • Sodom And Gomorra XXI - Progressive Symphonic Poem (reference)

  • Schmidt: Symphony No. 4/Strauss: Symphonic Fragment (reference)

  • Symphonic Suites of The Animated Classics (reference)

  • Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides: Reed; Absil; Dukas... (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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Photo Album: Symphonic

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Dean Dixon, young Negro conductor of symphonic orchestras in New York City, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, holding baton. Credit: Library of Congress.

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Girls practicing on the harp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Symphonic String Quartet, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Sounds Captioned with "Symphonic".

PlayCaption
Sliding chord played as the last note by a symphonic orchestra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Symphonic

SubjectTopicQuote

Minorities

Argentina

In April Alberto Merenson, a retired musician and former director of the Symphonic Orchestra of San Juan Province, was the victim of a letter bomb. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Symphonic

"Symphonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Symphonic" is used about 89 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%8934,931

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

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Expressions: Symphonic

Expressions using "symphonic": symphonic music symphonic poem. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "symphonic": double-symphonic, semi-symphonic.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Symphonic

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

symphonic

94

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4

symphonic tv

35

austin band symphonic

3

symphonic vcr

27

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3

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26

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3

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14

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3

symphonic music

9

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3

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9

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3

symphonic tv vcr

8

implant sonic string symphonic

2

symphonic electronic

8

london orchestra symphonic

2

symphonic band

7

symphonic remote control

2

metal symphonic

7

band houston symphonic

2

symphonic rock

7

combo symphonic tv vcr

2

symphonic tvs

5

contact serial symphonic

2

manual symphonic vcr

5

dvd player symphonic vcr

2

symphonic dvd vcr

5

product symphonic

2

dvd symphonic

4

band lone star symphonic

2

complete les miserables recording symphonic

4

symphonic band music

2

symphonic tvcr

4

choir indianapolis symphonic

2

dvd player symphonic

4

dance symphonic

2

symphonic wf802

4

clifton dance fiesta number symphonic three williams

2

part symphonic tv

4

company symphonic

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

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Modern Translation: Symphonic

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

Albanian

  

simfonik. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متناغم (agreeably, compatible, congruous, consistent, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, rhythmic), ‏متآلف الأصوات, ‏سمفوني. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

симфоничен (symphony). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

交"乐团 (symphonious). (various references)

   

Czech

  

symfonický. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

symfonisch. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

simfonia. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

موزون (Level), هم نوا (Symphony, Unisonous(Onal-Onant), هم اهنگ (Consonant, Unisonous(Onal-Onant), شبیه سمفونی . (various references)

   

French

  

symphonique. (various references)

   

German

  

symphonisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμφωνικόσ, αρμονικόσ (concordant, congruous, consonant, harmonic, harmonious, symphonious). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"רמו י (harmonic), סימפו י. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szimfonikus, szimfónia-. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sinfonico (symphony). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

交響詩 (symphonic poem), シンフェイン党 (banner, simple, simplicity, simplify, Sinn Fein, symbol, symbol color, symbolic, symbolic link, Symbolics, symbolism, symbolist, symbolize, symphonic jazz, symphonic poem, symphony). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うきょうし (symphonic poem), シンフォニックポエ (symphonic poem), シンフォニックジャズ (symphonic jazz). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

교향악 (Symphonies, symphonious, symphony). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheeansagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ymphonicsay

   

Polish

  

symfoniczny. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sinfônico. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

симфонический. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

simfonijski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sinfónico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

symfonisk. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

senfonik. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

симфонічний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

giao hưởng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Symphonic

Derivations

Words beginning with "symphonic": symphonically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Symphonic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sempronia, symbonic, symphone, symphonia, symphonie, symphonist. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Symphonic"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "symphonic" (pronounced si'mfÄ"nik)
5-f Ä" n i kallophonic, monophonic, phonic, polyphonic, telephonic.
4-Ä" n i kavionic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, conic, demonic, diatonic, electronic, embryonic, ganglionic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, laconic, leptonic, masonic, microelectronic, mnemonic, nucleonic, ovonic, pharaonic, philharmonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, sardonic, sonic, supersonic, synchronic, tectonic, tonic, ultrasonic.
3-n i karsenic, beatnik, botanic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, clinic, cynic, Dominick, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, germanic, hallucinogenic, inorganic, kibbutznik, manic, mechanic, messianic, monoclinic, multiethnic, neotenic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, panic, pathogenic, photogenic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, splenic, Sputnik, technic, telegenic, Titanic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, volcanic.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Symphonic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-m-n-o-p-s-y"

-1 letter: chymosin.

-2 letters: chopins, ciphony, miscopy, nymphos, phonics.

-3 letters: chimps, chinos, chomps, chopin, coyish, hominy, hypnic, monish, mopish, myopic, myosin, nympho, nymphs, phonic, physic, psycho, scyphi, simony, siphon, syncom, syphon.

-4 letters: chimp, chino, chins, chips, chomp, chops, cions, coins, comps, hymns, hypos, hyson, icons, mincy, noisy, nymph, ohmic, opsin, osmic, phons, phony, pinch, pions, pisco.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-m-n-o-p-s-y"
 

+3 letters: chymotrypsin, physiognomic, sycophantism.

 

+4 letters: amphictyonies, chymotrypsins, nymphomaniacs, psychodynamic, sycophantisms, symphonically.

 

+5 letters: comprehensibly, physiognomical, psychodynamics.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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