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say it: hahr-MAH-ni-kuh
harmonica is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /hɑɹˈmɑnɪkə/ — hahr-MAH-ni-kuh. It carries one recorded sense.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for harmonica come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.