Dictionary Entry
harp
harp is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
- 2noun
A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
- 3noun
A grain sieve.
- 4noun
To play on the harp.
- 5noun
To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
- 6transitive verb
To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
- 7noun
a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
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- 8noun
a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- 9noun
a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- 10verb
come back to
"Don't dwell on the past"
"She is always harping on the same old things"
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- 11verb
play the harp
"She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"
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