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Noun harp has 3 senses

harp - a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
--₁ is a kind of chordophone
--₁ has particulars: aeolian harp, aeolian lyre, wind harp; lyre
Derived form: verb harp₂
harp - a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
--₂ is a kind of support
harmonica, mouth organ, harp, mouth harp - a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
--₃ is a kind of free-reed instrument

Derived form: verb harp₂

Verb harp has 2 senses

harp, dwell - come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"
--₁ is one way to repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
harp - play the harp; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"
--₂ is one way to play

Derived forms: noun harp₃, noun harp₁, noun harper₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s