hymn

From Middle English ymne, borrowed from Old French ymne, from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos)

• enPR: hĭm, IPA^(key): /hɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: him

hymn (plural hymns)

1. A song of praise or worship.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

hymn (third-person singular simple present hymns, present participle hymning, simple past and past participle hymned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sing a hymn.
   • 2009 January 21, Michael Coveney, “Tom O'Horgan”, in The Guardian‎:

     An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second.

2. (transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
   • Keble

     To hymn the bright of the Lord.

   • Byron

     Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

• theody

• IPA^(key): /xɨmn/

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hymn m inan

1. anthem
2. hymn

hymn c

1. hymn, anthem