Euphony Definition

yo͝ofə-nē
euphonies
noun
euphonies
The quality of having a pleasing sound.
Webster's New World
Pleasant combination of agreeable sounds in spoken words.
Webster's New World
Such a combination of words.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
euphony
Plural:
euphonies

Origin of Euphony

  • French euphonie from Late Latin euphōnia from Greek euphōniā from euphōnos sweet-voiced eu- eu- phōnē sound bhā-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • eu- (“good”) + -phony, from Middle French euphonie, from Late Latin euphonia, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnia), from εὔφωνος (euphōnos).

    From Wiktionary

Euphony Sentence Examples

  • For the sake of euphony, a vowel is frequently interpolated between two consonants; e.g.

  • Finally it must be remembered that musical euphony and emotional effect are inseparable from considerations of harmony and polyphony.

  • The language is much ruled by laws of euphony, which have been strictly formulated by native grammarians.

  • The conditions which approximate most closely to our present, perfect, future and imperative are marked either by aspiration of the initial or by one of the five prefix consonants according to the rules of euphony, and the whole looks like a former system thrown into confusion and disorder by phonetic decay.

  • In its rudiments it is akin to the HamitoSemitic group. It possesses two grammatical genders, not masculine and feminine, but the human and the non-human; the adjective agrees in assonance with its noun, and euphony plays a great part in verbal and nominal inflections.

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Words Starting With

EEUEUP

Words Ending With

YNYONY

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euphony

Words Starting With E and Ending With Y

Starts With E & Ends With YStarts With EU & Ends With YStarts With E & Ends With NY

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With E7 Letter Words Ending With Y