Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo.
- noun In music, the use of polyphony, or the state of being polyphonic in structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Polyphony.
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- noun
polyphony
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Examples
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Solzhenitsyn has explained what he means by polyphonism: each person becomes the chief character whenever the action concerns him.
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