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harmonist

harmonist noun: one who shows the agreement of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four Biblical evangelists.

Noun (1)

harmonist (plural harmonists)

  1. One who shows the agreement of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four Biblical evangelists.
    • The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35
  2. One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a composer.

Noun (2) capitalized: Harmonist

Harmonist (plural Harmonists)

  1. (historical) A member of the Harmony Society, a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Germany in 1785.

harmonist meaning in Kannada

harmonist in Kannada

ಸ್ವರಮೇಳ ಚತುರ, ಸಂಗೀತಗಾರ, ಸಮನ್ವಯಕಾರ, ಸಮಾನಕಾರ, ಸುಸಾಂಗತ್ಯ ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವವನು

Synonyms of harmonist

Forms of harmonist

pluralharmonists
pluralHarmonists

Origin of harmonist

From harmony + -ist. Compare French harmoniste.

From harmony + -ist.

Questions about harmonist

What does harmonist mean?
Harmonist means one who shows the agreement of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four Biblical evangelists.
What is harmonist in Kannada?
Harmonist in Kannada is ಸ್ವರಮೇಳ ಚತುರ, ಸಂಗೀತಗಾರ, ಸಮನ್ವಯಕಾರ. See Harmonist meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is harmonist?
Harmonist is a noun.
What is the plural of harmonist?
The plural of harmonist is harmonists.

Words near harmonist in the dictionary

  1. harmonisers
  2. harmonises
  3. harmonising
  4. harmonisingly
  5. harmonism
  6. harmonist
  7. harmonistic
  8. harmonistically
  9. harmonists
  10. Harmonite
  11. Harmonites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harmonist (page history and authors); Harmonist (page history and authors); harmonist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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