HARMONIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harmonium mean? 

• HARMONIUM (noun)
  The noun HARMONIUM has 1 sense:

1. a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

  Familiarity information: HARMONIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARMONIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

harmonium; organ; reed organ

Hypernyms ("harmonium" is a kind of...):

instrument (a device that requires skill for proper use)

 Context examples 

Colonel Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the door. ‘I shall not keep you waiting an instant,’ said he, and vanished into the darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)