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单词 homophony
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homophonyn.

/həʊˈmɒfəni/
Etymology: < Greek ὁμοϕωνία unison, < ὁμόϕωνος (see homophone adj. and n.).
1. Music. Homophonic music or style.
a. Unison, or music performed in unison: opposed to antiphony.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > unison
unisound1599
unison1603
unisonance1653
homophony1776
unbrokenness1849
homophone1879
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 137 Antiphony is more agreeable than Homophony.
b. loosely. Monophony, monody: opposed to polyphony. (See homophonic adj.)
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > other kinds of harmony
antiphony1603
paraphonia?1775
close harmony1876
homophony1879
paraphony1919
heterophony1945
1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 111 The leading feature in..the 17th century is..the development of homophony with its melodious character and its richness of harmony, in contradistinction to the old strict polyphony.
2. Philology. The quality of being homophonous; identity of sound (of words or characters).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > similarity of sound
consonance1589
consonancya1657
assonance1728
assonancy1770
homoeophony1838
homophony1842
idem sonans1848
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 561/1 In French, which is peculiarly a dialect of Latin abounding in contractions, homophonies are numerous.
1892 Spectator 13 Aug. 233/2 Evident corruptions of the texts..specially favoured by the homophonies of the characters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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