{
    "term": "harmony",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a state of peaceful existence and agreement",
            "sensetop": "in harmonyin harmony with something",
            "labels": "(approving)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**social/racial harmony**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They lived together in perfect harmony.",
                    "contextForm": "in harmony"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the need to be in harmony with our environment",
                    "contextForm": "in harmony with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "On the surface their life was a model of domestic harmony."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Church tries to promote racial harmony."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many laws and customs are about social harmony."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They try to foster harmony between different groups of people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These communities lived in greater harmony with the environment than modern urban societies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We pray that peace and harmony may soon return to this troubled nation."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["complete", "perfect", "relative"],
                "verb + harmony": ["achieve", "bring", "create"],
                "preposition": ["in harmony", "harmony between", "harmony with"],
                "phrases": ["a sense of harmony"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the way in which different notes that are played or sung together combine to make a pleasant sound",
            "sensetop": "in harmony",
            "labels": "(music)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to sing in harmony",
                    "contextForm": "in harmony"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They began to sing in perfect four-part harmony."
                },
                {
                    "text": "passionate lyrics and stunning vocal harmonies"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["musical", "vocal", "beautiful"],
                "preposition": ["in harmony"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an attractive combination of related things",
            "labels": "(approving)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the harmony of colour in nature"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The designer’s aim is to produce a harmony of shape and texture."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Art"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɑːməni/",
                "audio": "ha/harmony/harmony__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɑːrməni/",
                "audio": "ha/harmony/harmony__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from Latin harmonia ‘joining, concord’, from Greek, from harmos ‘joint’."
}