Crossword-Solution: EUPHONY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Euphony | n. | A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EUPHONY | anagram | HONEYUP |
We have 18 clues for the answer “EUPHONY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pleasantness of sound | 1 answer |
| Pleasant sequence of sounds. | 1 answer |
| Pleasant effect of sounds. | 1 answer |
| PLEASANTNESS of sounds | 1 answer |
| Nice-sounding quality | 1 answer |
| Harmonious combination of words | 1 answer |
| "To the tintinabulation that so musically wells . . . " | 1 answer |
| Agreeableness of sound | 1 answer |
| Ear pleaser | 1 answer |
| Great sound | 2 answers |
| pleasing sound | 3 answers |
| Harmonious sounds. | 3 answers |
| CROWD PLEASER | 10 answers |
| CAPABILITY OF EXISTING OR PERFORMING IN HARMONIOUS OR CONGENIAL COMBINATION | 11 answers |
| unison | 26 answers |
| music | 34 answers |
| Melody | 48 answers |
| pleasantness | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EUPHONY (5)
This language is commonly known as the Basque or Biscayan, which words are mere modifications of the word Euscarra, the consonant B having been prefixed for the sake of euphony.
CHAPTER XLVIII What to do--Strong enough--Fame and profit--Alliterative euphony--Excellent fellow--Listen to me--A plan--Bagnigge Wells.
And then, with respect to Ab Gwilym, had I not done as much justice to him as to the Danish ballads; not only rendering faithfully his thoughts, imagery, and phraseology, but even preserving in my translation the alliterative euphony which constitutes one of the most remarkable features of Welsh prosody? Yes, I had accomplished all this; and I doubted not that the public would receive my translations from Ab Gwilym with quite as much eagerness as my version of the Danish ballads.
But I found the publishers as intractable as ever, and to this day the public has never had an opportunity of doing justice to the glowing fire of my ballad versification, and the alliterative euphony of my imitations of Ab Gwilym.
CHAPTER XVII--PROOFS OF GROWTH Once again I quote Goethe: "Natural simplicity and repose are the acme of art, and hence it follows no youth can be a master." It has to be confessed that seldom, if ever, does Stevenson naturally and by sheer enthusiasm for subject and characters attain this natural simplicity, if he often attained the counterfeit presentment--artistic and graceful euphony, and new, subtle, and often unexpected concatenations of phrase.
Quotes with EUPHONY (2)
I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II Hear the mellow …
A poem must be authentic. It could be flowery, it could have the most brilliant metaphor, it could be bursting with onomatopoeia and alliteration, assonance and consonance, hyperbole and paradox, from every end, it could have daring syntax and clever cacophony, it could have a neat and ordered rhyme scheme... but, if it loses its authenticity, its ability to convey the very heart and soul of the poet, then all the euphony and cacophony in the world cannot make up for the loss…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Slate, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1955–2014).