Crossword clues for euphony
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Euphony \Eu"pho*ny\, n.; pl. Euphonies. [L. euphonia, Gr. ?, fr. ? sweet-voiced; e'y^ well + ? sound, voice; akin to ? to speak: cf. F. euphonie.] A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French euphonie, from Late Latin euphonia, from Greek euphonia "sweetness of voice," related to euphonos "well-sounding," from eu- "good" (see eu-) + phone "sound, voice," related to phanai "speak" (see fame (n.)). Related: Euphonic (1782); euphonical (1660s); euphonious (1774). Hence, also, euphonium (1864), the musical instrument.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear. 2 Good phonetic quality of certain words.
WordNet
n. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: music]
Wikipedia
Euphony is the demonstration of pleasant phonaesthetics.
Euphony may also refer to:
- Euphony (Matthew Good album), a 1994 folk album
- Euphony (Casiopea album), a 1988 jazz album
- Euphony (film), a 2005 British film
- Euphony Communications Ltd, a telecommunications company
Euphony is the 18th album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1988.
Usage examples of "euphony".
Mediterranean palate, he brought them out with a clarity, a euphony, one might almost say a plasticity, that was truly refreshing.
He, therefore, gave these characters the first names that euphony suggested, without any attempt at translation.
Chrysantheme, which, though translating the sense exactly, does not preserve the strange-sounding euphony of the original.
That this detracts from clearness and euphony both, every reader will admit.
The nature of the thought will determine the one, our sense of euphony the other.
Literature can never conform to the dictates of pure euphony, while grammar, which has been shaped not in the interests of prosody, but for the service of thought, bars the way with its clumsy inalterable polysyllables and the monotonous sing-song of its inflexions.
When a nominative immediately follows the verb, the pronominal suffix is generally dropped, unless required by euphony.
She shaped it, melding the cacophonies and euphonies into dazzling lancets.
It's about thirty from the end of the Euphonies to the southern reaches of the Royal Blues.