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What is the noun for harp?

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harp
  1. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
    1. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
  2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
  3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
  4. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of the musical instrument used as a charge, as in the arms of Ireland.
  5. Synonyms:
harper
  1. A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals.
  2. (obsolete) An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The harper gracefully plucked the strings of her traditional harp, creating a soothing melody.”
      “True to the tradition of real Irish music, we would be standing around a fire listening to a harper or singing in gaelic.”
      “Arthur burst into laughter when he discovered that it was harper, the lay-clerk.”
harpe
  1. (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This was shortly before La Harpe attempted to reoccupy the place for the French.”
      “Ryan de la Harpe set up the opening try for Warren Hunt and George Tossel added a penalty.”
      “Bonacieux, who willingly took it, half laughing, half trembling, and both gained the top of Rue de la Harpe.”
harpist
  1. Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The harpist enchanted the audience with her mesmerizing melodies on the pedal harp.”
      “Laurie Pappajohn, a local harpist, and her group played traditional music of the mystics using medieval Celtic instruments.”
      “Her youngest daughter is currently being taught the clarsach by a Scottish harpist.”
harpress
  1. (archaic) A woman who plays the harp.
harpstring
  1. The string of a harp.
harpe
  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp
  2. Examples:
    1. “This was shortly before La Harpe attempted to reoccupy the place for the French.”
      “Ryan de la Harpe set up the opening try for Warren Hunt and George Tossel added a penalty.”
      “Bonacieux, who willingly took it, half laughing, half trembling, and both gained the top of Rue de la Harpe.”
harpstrings
  1. plural of harpstring
harpresses
  1. plural of harpress
harpists
harpers
harpes
  1. plural of harpe
harps
  1. plural of harp
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I love what I do and I hate to be one of those people who harps on about how detrimental it is to development.”
      “I wondered what he was thinking as we swayed to the melody of softly playing lutes, harps, and lyres.”
      “Other musical instruments included stringed instruments such as fiddles and harps, and woodwind instruments such as flutes and fifes.”
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