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adj. - Of or relating to or characterized by having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together

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Usage examples (8)
  • The first thing to note is that this term is multifarious, indeed, polyphonous, as our postmodern compatriots like to say.
  • I listened to him attentively, vainly endeavoring to imagine how he produced such a volume of sounds, and delighted with the beautiful melody and exquisite harmony of his...
  • I was placed on a platform, and he then made a polyphonous speech, without a consonant sound in it; describing, as I afterwards learned, the history of my discovery and...
  • It also offers lots of connections to many of the books in the first half of the term, particularly in that it is a book by a white outsider who has become culturally as much...
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