symphony

English

Etymology

From Old French simphonie, from Latin symphonia, from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). Synchronically, syn- +‎ -phony.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.fəˌni/, IPA^(key): [ˈsɪɱ.fəˌni]

Noun

symphony (countable and uncountable, plural symphonies)

An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.
(music) An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.
Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.
(US, informal) A symphony orchestra.

Derived terms

symphonist

Translations

piece of orchestral music

Arabic: سِيمْفُونِيَّة‎ f (simfūniyya)
Belarusian: сімфонія f (simfónija)
Bulgarian: симфония f (simfónija)
Catalan: simfonia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 交響曲 (zh), 交响曲 (zh) (jiāoxiǎngqǔ)
Czech: symfonie (cs) f
Danish: symfoni c
Dutch: symfonie (nl) f
Esperanto: simfonio
Finnish: sinfonia (fi)
French: symphonie (fr) f
German: Sinfonie (de) f, Symphonie (de) f
Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía)
Hungarian: szimfónia (hu)
Icelandic: sinfónía f
Italian: sinfonia (it) f
Japanese: 交響曲 (ja) (こうきょうきょく, kōkyōkyoku)
Korean: 교향곡 (ko) (kyohyanggok) (交響曲 (ko))
Latvian: simfonija f, simfōnija f (obsolete spelling)

Macedonian: симфонија f (simfónija)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: symfoni m

Nynorsk: symfoni m
Persian: سمفونی‎ (fa) (semfuni, simfuni)
Polish: symfonia (pl) f
Portuguese: sinfonia (pt) f
Russian: симфо́ния (ru) f (simfónija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: симфонија f

Roman: simfonija (sh) f
Slovak: symfónia f
Slovene: simfonija f
Spanish: sinfonía (es) f
Swedish: symfoni (sv) c
Thai: ซิมโฟนี (símfohnee)
Ukrainian: симфонія (uk) f (symfónija)
Vietnamese: giao hưởng (vi) (交響)
Volapük: sümfon, (children) cilasümfon
Welsh: symffoni f

Anagrams

hyponyms, physnomy

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