harp

1. 1.

   come back to

   “Don't dwell on the past”

   “She is always harping on the same old things”

   Synonymsdwell

   Broaderrepeat
2. 2.

   play the harp

   “She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully”

   Broaderplay

   music

Other forms of harp

plural

harps·

past tense

harped·

present participle

harping·

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.

Questions about harp

What does harp mean?

harp means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in harp?

harp has 1 syllable: harp. In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹp/.

What is another word for harp?

Close synonyms include harmonica, mouth organ, mouth harp, dwell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is harp a common word?

harp is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.