| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| euphony |
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| SYLLABICATION: | eu·pho·ny |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  y  f -n |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. eu·pho·nies
Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French euphonie, from Late Latin euph nia, from Greek euphni , from euphnos, sweet-voiced : eu-, eu- + phn, sound; see bh-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | eu·phonic (y-f n k) —ADJECTIVE
eu·phoni·cal·ly —ADVERB
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