Usually means: Stringed instrument played by plucking.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word harp:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. harp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harp, harp: Wordnik
  7. harp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Harp, Harp: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Harp, harp: Wiktionary
  10. harp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. harp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. harp: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. HARP: Dictionary.com
  14. harp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. harp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. HARP (Hadron Production Experiment), HARP (algorithm), HARP, Harp (disambiguation), Harp, The Harp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Harp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. harp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. harp: Rhymezone
  20. harp, harp (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. harp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Harp: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. harp: Free Dictionary
  24. harp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. harp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Harp: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Harp: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Harp: Classical Music Guide
  6. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harp: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HARP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. harp: Idioms
  5. harp: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Harp: Easton Bible
  2. Harp: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. HARP: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HARP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Harp (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. harp, harp, harp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. harp: The Folk File
  4. harp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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
noun:  Any instrument of the same musicological type.
noun:  (colloquial) A harmonica.
noun:  (Scotland) A grain sieve.
noun:  The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
verb:  (derogatory, usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain.
verb:  (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
verb:  (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a player of the harp.
noun:  Short for harp seal. [One of species Pagophilus groenlandicus, a true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean.]

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