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polyphonies

polyphonies is the plural of polyphony.

Meaning of polyphony

Noun

polyphony (countable and uncountable, plural polyphonies)

  1. 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).
  2. The quality of a text of being able to be read in more than one way.
    • the polyphony of a biblical passage

Questions about polyphonies

What is polyphonies the plural of?
Polyphonies is the plural of polyphony.

Words near polyphonies in the dictionary

  1. polyphonia
  2. polyphonias
  3. polyphonic
  4. polyphonical
  5. polyphonically
  6. polyphonies
  7. polyphonism
  8. polyphonisms
  9. polyphonist
  10. polyphonists
  11. polyphonous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polyphonies (page history and authors); polyphony (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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