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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A surname originating as an occupation for a player of the harp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
Any instrument of the same musicological type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Any musical instrument.
A harmonica.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Any musical instrument.
A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A grain sieve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Ellipsis of harp seal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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verb
To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, usually, with-on
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verb
To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To play (a tune) on the harp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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noun
a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: harmonica, mouth organ, mouth harp
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Broader terms: free-reed instrument
noun
a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: chordophone
Narrower terms: aeolian harp, aeolian lyre, wind harp, lyre
noun
a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: support
verb
come back to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dwell
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Broader terms: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
verb
play the harp
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: play
History
From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).
Across languages
110 source translations are retained for this English entry.
