- a religious song of praise to God or a god, especially one sung by Christians in church
- The service began with a rousing hymn.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rousing
- old
- traditional
- …
- play
- sing
- book
- tune
- [usually singular] if a film, book, etc. is a hymn to something, it praises it very strongly
Word OriginOld English, via Latin from Greek humnos ‘ode or song in praise of a god or hero’, used in the Septuagint to translate various Hebrew words, and hence in the New Testament of the Bible and other Christian writings.
Idioms
See hymn in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysing from the same hymn/song sheet
- (British English, informal) to show that you are in agreement with each other by saying the same things in publicTopics Opinion and argumentc2
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