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{
"term": "harmony",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a state of peaceful existence and agreement",
"sensetop": "in harmonyin harmony with something",
"labels": "(approving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**social/racial harmony**"
},
{
"text": "They lived together in perfect harmony.",
"contextForm": "in harmony"
},
{
"text": "the need to be in harmony with our environment",
"contextForm": "in harmony with something"
},
{
"text": "On the surface their life was a model of domestic harmony."
},
{
"text": "The Church tries to promote racial harmony."
},
{
"text": "Many laws and customs are about social harmony."
},
{
"text": "They try to foster harmony between different groups of people."
},
{
"text": "These communities lived in greater harmony with the environment than modern urban societies."
},
{
"text": "We pray that peace and harmony may soon return to this troubled nation."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["complete", "perfect", "relative"],
"verb + harmony": ["achieve", "bring", "create"],
"preposition": ["in harmony", "harmony between", "harmony with"],
"phrases": ["a sense of harmony"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the way in which different notes that are played or sung together combine to make a pleasant sound",
"sensetop": "in harmony",
"labels": "(music)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to sing in harmony",
"contextForm": "in harmony"
},
{
"text": "They began to sing in perfect four-part harmony."
},
{
"text": "passionate lyrics and stunning vocal harmonies"
}
],
"topics": ["Music"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["musical", "vocal", "beautiful"],
"preposition": ["in harmony"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "an attractive combination of related things",
"labels": "(approving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the harmony of colour in nature"
},
{
"text": "The designer’s aim is to produce a harmony of shape and texture."
}
],
"topics": ["Art"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɑːməni/",
"audio": "ha/harmony/harmony__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɑːrməni/",
"audio": "ha/harmony/harmony__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from Latin harmonia ‘joining, concord’, from Greek, from harmos ‘joint’."
}