hymn
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3.9
- noun
- /hɪm/
- 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
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Watch on YouTubeThis 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.
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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
120
3.5
A song for a country, school, or religion that shows love and loyalty
58
8.1
A sacred song from the Bible used in prayer
52
2.3
A happy song that people sing at Christmas
4
9.9
A song, speech, or piece of writing that gives strong praise
3
8.3
A church hymn tune often sung in Lutheran services
1
8.3
A short religious song of praise sung during the Christian Mass beginning with 'Holy, Holy, Holy'
1
9.5
A hymn or song of praise from the Bible used in Christian worship
1
2.1
A song sung as part of religious worship or ceremonies
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
6.9
A shouted or sung praise to God during religious worship
1
9.9
A short prayer sung in Eastern Orthodox church services or for the dead
1
9.9
A song that praises a god, often sung in ancient Greece
1
7.6
A hymn tune used in some Christian churches and often sung by a choir
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.