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Meaning of "polyphonous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYPHONOUS

polyphonous  [pəˈlɪfənəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYPHONOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Polyphonous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYPHONOUS


aphonous
ˈæfənəs
asynchronous
æˈsɪŋkrənəs
autochthonous
ɔːˈtɒkθənəs
autophanous
ɔːˈtɒfənəs
cacophonous
kəˈkɒfənəs
cavernous
ˈkævənəs
cymophanous
saɪˈmɒfənəs
diaphanous
daɪˈæfənəs
epiphanous
ɪˈpɪfənəs
Eridanus
ɛˈrɪdənəs
homophonous
hɒˈmɒfənəs
hydrophanous
haɪˈdrɒfənəs
monotonous
məˈnɒtənəs
poisonous
ˈpɔɪzənəs
pseudomonas
sjuːˈdɒmənəs
ravenous
ˈrævənəs
synchronous
ˈsɪŋkrənəs
tetanus
ˈtɛtənəs
theophanous
θɪˈɒfənəs
treasonous
ˈtriːzənəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYPHONOUS

polyphenol
polyphenolic
polyphloesboean
polyphloisbic
polyphon
polyphone
polyphonic
polyphonic prose
polyphonic ringtone
polyphonically
polyphonies
polyphonist
polyphonously
polyphony
polyphosphoric acid
polyphyletic
polyphyletically
polyphyllous
polyphyodont

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYPHONOUS

acotyledonous
allochthonous
anachronous
carbonous
diachronous
dicotyledonous
epigonous
geosynchronous
gluttonous
haplostemonous
homotonous
isochronous
monocotyledonous
nonpoisonous
nonsynchronous
nous
ozonous
phlegmonous
prisonous
tautochronous
unisonous

Synonyms and antonyms of polyphonous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polyphonous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYPHONOUS

Find out the translation of polyphonous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of polyphonous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «polyphonous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

polyphonous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polifónica
570 millions of speakers

English

polyphonous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

polyphonous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

polyphonous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

polyphonous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polyphonous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

polyphonous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polyphonique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Polyphonous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

polyphonen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

polyphonous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

polyphonous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polyphonous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

polyphonous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

polyphonous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॉलीफोनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

polyphonous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polyphonous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polyphonous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

polyphonous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polyphonous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Πολυφωνικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polyphonous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polyphonous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polyphonous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polyphonous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYPHONOUS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYPHONOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about polyphonous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYPHONOUS»

Discover the use of polyphonous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polyphonous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reinventing Identities
Indexing. Polyphonous. Identity. in. the. Speech. of. African. American. Drag. Queens. n this chapter, I examine the presence and use of a "white- woman" style of speaking among African American drag queens (hereafter AADQs). I hope to ...
Mary Bucholtz A. C. Liang Laurel A. Sutton
2
Introduction
During the period of the growth of polyphonous music and English m«- the rise of true harmonic music, England occupied one of the foremost positions, politically and intellectually, in Europe. She possessed great religious foundations, ...
Eugene O'Curry, 1873
3
The Atlantis
which contain the " ambiguous" or polyphonous hieroglyphs, de Sacy says : — " Nous craignons bien que la seule vue de ce tableau ne conti- enne la refutation de tout son syst£me". The results of the system are described by de Sacy very ...
‎1862
4
The Atlantis: a register of literature and science
which contain the " ambiguous" or polyphonous hieroglyphs, de Sacy says : — " Nous craignons bien que la seule vue de ce tableau ne conti- enne la refutation de tout son systeme". The results of the system are described by de Sacy very ...
Dublin city, univ. coll, 1862
5
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
In order to give right expression to feelings, music must be polyphonous ;| for while thought is essentially simple, feeling on the contrary is so complex that at the same moment it can harbour essentially different, indeed directly contradictory ...
H.S. Chamberlain
6
Whispering The Word
The presence of two competing voices in this story makes this, in Bakhtin's terms, a polyphonous text, that is, one that allows for the interplay among "a plurality of independent and umnerged voices and consciousnesses, " with each voice ...
Jacqueline E. Lapsley
7
Handbook of Narrative Analysis
He considered the novel as a polyphonous genre and showed in his work on Dos- toyevsky how every novel is a texture made up of registers and forms of language that each comprise a specific ideology.65 Bakhtin especially focuses on ...
‎2005
8
Finding Art's Place: Experiments in Contemporary Education ...
Polyphonous. Voice. The writinginthis book isalso structured alongalineof address that reflectsaradical shiftin thinking abouttheways that meanings are made, positioned, and produced in contemporary culture. Centralto thisimportant shift are ...
Nicholas Paley, 2012
9
Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke
Afterword. Let. Us. Now. Attain. Polyphonous. Epiphanies. On a sunny Saturday Halifax, Nova Scotia, afternoon in April 1972, my father gathered up his three sons and a few of our friends, crowded us all into a station wagon, and just went ...
George Elliott Clarke, 2008
10
A General History Of The Science and Practice Of Music: In ...
... the ancients, was Nicolaus Vicentinus*j who when he ' perceived that the division of the tetrachords according to the three ' genera by Boetius could not suit a polyphonous melothesia and our ' ratio of composition, devised another method, ...
John Hawkins, 1776

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYPHONOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polyphonous is used in the context of the following news items.
1
GLENN LOWRY with Joachim Pissarro, Gaby Collins-Fernandez …
Just because, in a way, we live in this polyphonous moment, it doesn't mean that everything goes. Pissarro: It's interesting that you mentioned ... «Brooklyn Rail, May 15»
2
Twin sisters follow their dad's Buena Vista Social Club roots into Afro …
And while you'll hear acoustic sounds typical of Yoruba chanting rituals, you'll also hear polyphonous harmonies from Eastern Europe. «WLRN, Apr 15»
3
Unmasking the Glow
I am incapable of leaving my residence until I've rendered a meticulous sartorial model of that day's polyphonous version of my internal ... «Gawker, Apr 15»
4
Bayadère - The Ninth Life, Shobana Jeyasingh Company, Linbury …
Jeyasingh's nine dancers in their polyphonous, interlocking, multi-referential series of duets and trios, for all their energy and conviction, don't ... «The Arts Desk, Mar 15»
5
Master of melody
The percussion in this song starts as a solid mridangam beat, rolls into tabla and drums, and ends as a complex, polyphonous rhythm. To top it all, there is a ... «Frontline, Jan 15»
6
Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a Pynchonian epic to get lost in
How could one make a movie that conveys the depth of Pynchon's literature, to say nothing of his polyphonous language? Rather than tackle ... «Chicago Reader, Jan 15»
7
Explore time through experimental art
Media rich, concept-driven, formally polyphonous, playful, urgent, replete with philosophical density - this is the kind of art that addresses all our ... «Deccan Herald, Dec 14»
8
Gnosis, Akram Khan, King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Khan's stage presence is so potent, his dancing such a rich, polyphonous, almost supernatural form of communication, that his perfectly ... «The Arts Desk, Aug 14»
9
New Band of the Week: Taylor McFerrin (No 8)
... be the son of the aforementioned polyphonous vocalist but hasn't acquired his old man's ingratiating scat-singer DNA. It's not annoying at all. «The Guardian, Jun 14»
10
Hail Caesar
His ability to stretch his mobile face and his polyphonous voice to suit whatever character he wanted to mimic were not just funny but funny in a ... «American Spectator, Feb 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Polyphonous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/polyphonous>. May 2024 ».
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