Definition of harp

"harp" in the noun sense

1. harp

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

2. harp

a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

3. harmonica, mouth organ, harp, mouth harp

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

"harp" in the verb sense

1. harp, dwell

come back to

"Don't dwell on the past"

"She is always harping on the same old things"

2. harp

play the harp

"She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"

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Quotations for harp

Harp not on that string. [ William Shakespeare ]

The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed.
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls,
As if that soul were fled. [ Moore ]

Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. [ Watts ]

It rose, that chanted mournful strain,
Like some lone spirit's over the plain;
'Twas musical, but sadly sweet,
Such as when winds and harp-strings meet,
And take a long unmeasured tone,
To mortal minstrelsy unknown. [ Byron ]

And winter, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. [ Alexander Smith ]

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. [ Bacon ]

Nature is an Aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the reecho of higher strings within us. [ Novalis ]

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. [ Bacon ]

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Aeolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. [ Burke ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct. [ Kossuth ]

harp in Scrabble®

The word harp is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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harp in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of harp

2 letter words in harp (4 words)

3 letter words in harp (3 words)

4 letter words in harp (1 word)

harp + 1 blank (5 words)

Word Growth involving harp

Shorter words in harp

ar

ha

Longer words containing harp

autoharp autoharps

claviharp

harped sharped sharpedged

harper harpers sharpers

harper sharper sharpers

harpies sharpies

harping sharping

harpist harpists vibraharpists

harpist vibraharpist vibraharpists

harpless

harplike

harpoon harpooned

harpoon harpooneer harpooneers

harpoon harpooner harpooners

harpoon harpooning

harpoon harpoonlike

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harpress harpresses

harps autoharps

harps harpsical harpsicals

harps harpsichord harpsichordist harpsichordists

harps harpsichord harpsichords

harps harpsicle harpsicles

harps sharps sharpshoot sharpshooter sharpshooters

harps sharps sharpshoot sharpshooting

harps sharps sharpsighted sharpsightedly

harps sharps sharpsighted sharpsightedness

harps sharps sharpspoken

harps vibraharps

harpy sharpy

sharp jewsharp

sharp oversharp

sharp razorsharp

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sharp sharpcornered

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sharp sharps sharpspoken

sharp sharptail sharptailed

sharp sharptasting

sharp sharptongued

sharp sharptoothed

sharp sharpwitted

sharp sharpworded

sharp sharpy

sharp ultrasharp

vibraharp vibraharpist vibraharpists

vibraharp vibraharps