Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A song of praise or thanksgiving to God or a deity.
- noun A song of praise or joy; a paean.
- intransitive verb To praise, glorify, or worship in or as if in a hymn.
- intransitive verb To sing hymns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To celebrate or worship in song; address hymns to; salute with song.
- To express in a hymn; sing as a hymn: as, “hymned thanks,”
- To sing hymns.
- noun In general, a religious ode, song, or other poem: as, the Homeric hymns; the hymns of Pindar.
- noun Specifically A metrical formula of public worship, usually designed to be sung by a company of worshipers.
- noun In a narrow sense, an extra-Biblical poem of worship: opposed to psalm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
- intransitive verb To sing in praise or adoration.
- noun An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thanksgiving intended to be used in religious service
- noun a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
song ofpraise orworship . - verb To
sing a hymn; topraise orworship bysinging .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sing a hymn
- verb praise by singing a hymn
- noun a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term hymn has a less definite meaning than those of antiphon or responsory, and in the primitive liturgies its use is somewhat uncertain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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[1] Whenever in this work the term hymn occurs, it is applied to the words as distinguished from the music.
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One thing you notice when you attend non-Catholic services where people sing with gusto, where people love their hymns, and the hymns truly do reflect an organic preference of the people: all the verses are sung because the hymn is the only thing going on.
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In the 8-line “The Ostrich,” Webster celebrates the bird in hymn stanzas, arranged in their usual pattern of alternating lines of four and three iambic feet:
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Life , but after that hymn is sung, then it can be Dixieland bands, all the way.
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This hymn is now part of FA Cup folklore, and it's BECAUSE Cardiff City were there ..... isnt that ENOUGH reason to be proud?
Shall we sing a song for you? O'Neill 2008
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It's a beautiful hymn; the Latin words are terrific, although I'm not mad about either of these translations into English.
Archive 2008-04-01 bls 2008
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It's a beautiful hymn; the Latin words are terrific, although I'm not mad about either of these translations into English.
Office Hymns of Eastertide bls 2008
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Our favorite hymn is “I love you conditionally, get off my property”
Think Progress » VIDEO: House Conservatives Reveal What God Thinks About Gay Marriage Amendment 2006
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December 14, 2007 at 12:51 am in short, hymn neads yore komplete attenshuns and devoshuns.
Melodrama kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
skipvia commented on the word hymn
I think the "n" is only there so you can say "hymnal."
October 4, 2007
skipvia commented on the word hymn
Solemn and reverent.
December 18, 2007