Euphony

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  • noun. Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Easy enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation which is pleasing to the sense; agreeable utterance.
  • noun. Harmonious arrangement of sounds in composition; a smooth and agreeable combination of articulate elements in any piece of writing.
  • noun. Synonyms Euphony, Melody, Harmony, Rhythm. Euphony in style respects simply the question of pleasing sounds in the words themselves. Melody respects the succession of sounds, especially as affected by the pitch appropriate to the thought and required by the arrangement of clauses. Harmony respects the adaptation of sound to sense. Rhythm respects the emphasis—that is, the succession of emphatic and unemphatic syllables. In music melody respects the agreeable combination of successive sounds of various pitch, while harmony respects the agreeable blending of simultaneous sounds of different pitch, the sounds in either case being from voices or musical instruments; thus, a song for children to sing must depend for its effect upon melody rather than harmony.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
  • noun. Good phonetic quality of certain words.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
  • Word Usage
    "Sa and Vaila reached Savaii, united their names also, and, for the sake of euphony, or, as they call euphony "lifting it easily," made it Savaii instead of Savaila."
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