hymn
76
3.9
- noun
- /hɪm/
:
himno
- Let's show them how lost we are and sing a hymn the way it should be sung.
- sing hymns
- a hymn of praise
- hymns in church
This was an ancient Homerics age hymn dedicated to the God Atis.
- This was an ancient Homerics age hymn dedicated to the God Atis.
- So it, it's deriving from these kind of hymns, these traditions, this language of liberation.
- And in the midst of this poem, I, I felt that I needed to have a hymn to creation.
- The statues are now only stones from which the living soul has flown, just as the hymns are words from which belief has gone.
- And you're always forced to go to assembly and forced to sing the hymns and and maybe not taught well enough.
- They were singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, you know, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, which is the, which is the hymn that they had sung when Lincoln was killed.
- They're marching back, they're singing psalms on one side of the line, the foot soldiers, the mounted soldiers singing hymns from the other.
- And now I please ask, I please ask that you stand, if you are able, for the Stanford hymn and the benediction.
- And so right alongside the Kesh Temple hymn, we have the Ankean World Order text, which is just as old one of the Ankean World Order.
- To stay the God's wrath, sacrifices were made and hymns raised to Poseidon as restrainer of the earth and the stabilizer.
- Having gotten rid of the genius, the giant of the weather, Stevens closes with a hymn to the weather.
- Anybody with the chutzpah to quote the Battle Hymn of the Republic twice in one paragraph is either crazy or a genius.
- We've seen that hymns convey something very important.
Examples
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Everyone rose at the end and sang out on the final hymn before being dismissed.
Fiction book (1991) -
Hank, unaccompanied and completely sober, plays an old hymn, "How Can You Refuse Him Now?"
Fiction book (1990) -
When it came to the church, the hymn probably meant life ever after.
Fiction book (1994) -
Because that spiritual hymn, it works in this church still.
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A Christian hymn and a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this.
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Celest said when the opening hymn began, Rachel was surprised, but then she began to sing too.
Fiction book (1990) -
Let us rejoice in his presence... and sing hymn number 376.
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We sat through hundreds of sermons together, singing hymns and holding hands.
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All the good old hymns, praise God, that we've sung.
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During the service, the congregation joyfully sang a beautiful hymn in praise of the Lord.
Synonyms
601
2.3
A happy song that people sing at Christmas
109
3.5
A song for a country, school, or religion that shows love and loyalty
88
6.9
A shouted or sung praise to God during religious worship
67
8.1
A sacred song from the Bible used in prayer
5
8.3
A church hymn tune often sung in Lutheran services
5
9.9
A song, speech, or piece of writing that gives strong praise
1
8.3
A short religious song of praise sung during the Christian Mass beginning with 'Holy, Holy, Holy'
1
2.1
A song sung as part of religious worship or ceremonies
1
9.5
A hymn or song of praise from the Bible used in Christian worship
1
9.9
A song of praise that Mary sings in the Gospel of Luke
1
9.9
A short song in Christian worship that praises God
1
9.9
A Christian church song that people sing to give praise and thanks on special occasions
1
7.6
A hymn tune used in some Christian churches and often sung by a choir
1
9.9
A song that praises a god, often sung in ancient Greece
A short prayer sung in Eastern Orthodox church services or for the dead
How Religious
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hymn comes from the Greek word hymnos, which means 'song of praise'. So a hymn is a song or poem that praises God, a saint, or a nation.