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euphony

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈjuːfəni/

Definition of euphony

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
    “When I hear you speak, I hear beautiful euphony.”
    “Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
    “When I hear you speak, I hear beautiful euphony.”
    “Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.

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Etymology

From French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as eu- + -phony.

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