Definition of "euphonous" [eu•pho•nous]

• Alternative form of euphonious. (adjective)

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• "Most noises resonate for about 20 seconds - even the most hideous sounds become euphonous when played in the Silophone."
• "As the tradition goes, while the commissioners were debating what they should call the town they were making, a wag suggested that it be named Vandalia, in honor of the Vandals, a tribe of Indians which, said he, had once lived on the borders of the Kaskaskia; this, he argued, would conserve a local tradition while giving a euphonous title."
• "Indian names, which are euphonous, and very often musical; but, so far from it, they appear to have had a pleasure in dismissing them altogether."