Synonyms for harmonica

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hahr-mon-i-kuh

Phonetic Transcription : hɑrˈmɒn ɪ kə

Définition of harmonica

Origin : 1762, coined by Ben Franklin as the name for a glass harmonica, from Latin fem. of harmonicus (see harmonic); modern sense of "mouth organ" is 1873, American English, earlier harmonicon (1825).

noun mouth organ

Example sentences :

Nick removed the harmonica from his lips and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

And then away, with an extra pair of socks and a harmonica for baggage.
Extract from : « If You Don't Write Fiction » by Charles Phelps Cushing

When they had eaten Dan produced his harmonica and blew a few notes.
Extract from : « The Wilderness Castaways » by Dillon Wallace

Tones like those produced by a harmonica are heard from the tarn.
Extract from : « Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series » by August Strindberg

The harmonica then played a little sprightly motif, in six-eight.
Extract from : « Mysterious Psychic Forces » by Camille Flammarion

Behind the medium, upon a chair, there was a harmonica, at the distance of about a yard.
Extract from : « Mysterious Psychic Forces » by Camille Flammarion

He placed the harmonica to his lips, holding it in hollowed hands.
Extract from : « Blue Goose » by Frank Lewis Nason

Thy Æolian-harp, my harmonica, how gladly would I have it in my hand!
Extract from : « Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) » by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

But he could hang by one leg from a rotten branch, the while playing a harmonica.
Extract from : « Tom Slade's Double Dare » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Across the hollow came the sounds of a guitar and a harmonica.
Extract from : « The Power and the Glory » by Grace MacGowan Cooke

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