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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Music with two or more independent melodic parts sounded together.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The capability of being pronounced in various ways characterizing some written characters.
  2. n. In music, the act, process, art, or result of simultaneously combining two or more voice-parts so that they shall maintain their individuality and independent interest, and yet shall harmonize with each other; counterpoint. It is opposed to monody. monophony. and homophony, in which a single voice-part is raised into decided prominence, and to harmony (in one of its senses), in which the attention is centered upon the successive chords as such rather than upon the voice-parts that constitute them. See counterpoint, 3.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music Musical texture consisting of several independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.
  2. n. Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.
  3. n. (Mus.) Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments

Etymologies

  1. From poly- + -phony. (Wiktionary)

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  • oroboros The longest common word using typewriter letters for the right hand. See also homophony.
    --Chris Cole, Wordplay (See comment under "Wordplay List".) May 24, 2008

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