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Euphony   /jˈufəni/   Listen
Euphony

noun
(pl. euphonies)
1.
Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds.  Synonym: music.






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"Euphony" Quotes from Famous Books



... from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future!—how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... times, and Sophocles twice, its euphony recommends it more than any other name of ...
— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) • Various

... Tutu and his wife Ila reached the island of Tutuila, and named it so by the union of their names. U and Polu reached Upolu, and hence the name of that island by uniting their names. 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 ...
— Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before • George Turner

... at the end of gegedo. The full word is really gegedove; but it is shortened to gegedo, unless the next word is a vowel. Also note the "u." There are two words for "and," namely ta and une. The "u" here is the une shortened, and put instead of ta for euphony]. ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson

... medium of "filthy lucre;" for there was a well-known dog-fancier and proprietor, whose surname was that of the rich substantive just mentioned, to which had been prefixed the "filthy" adjective, probably for the sake of euphony. As usual, Filthy Lucre was clumping with his lame leg up and down the pavement just in front of the Brazenface gate, accompanied by his last "new and extensive assortment" of terriers of every variety, which he now pulled up for the inspection of ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede


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