noun
Meaning 1
A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hymn
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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hĭm
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/hɪm/
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rhymes with -ɪm
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homophone: him
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To sing a hymn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To praise or extol in hymns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 4
a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anthem
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religious song
Narrower terms: dithyramb, doxology, chorale, choral, canticle, hymeneal, paean, pean, recessional, Dies Irae, Internationale, Te Deum
verb
Meaning 5
praise by singing a hymn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- They hymned their love of God
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim
verb
Meaning 6
sing a hymn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sing
History
Etymology
From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).
Across languages
Translations
153 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: himne — a song of praise or worship
- Albanian: himn — a song of praise or worship
- Amharic: ማሕሌት (maḥlet) — a song of praise or worship
- Amharic: ሐልዮ (ḥälyo) — a song of praise or worship
- Arabic: تَرْتِيلَة (tartīla) — a song of praise or worship
- Arabic: تَرْنِيمَة (tarnīma) — a song of praise or worship
- Arabic: تَسْبِيحَة (tasbīḥa) — a song of praise or worship
- Arabic: ترتيل (tartīl) — a song of praise or worship
- Armenian: ձոն (jon) — a song of praise or worship
- Armenian: գովերգ (goverg) — a song of praise or worship
- Armenian: ներբող (nerboġ) — a song of praise or worship
- Armenian: օրհներգ (ōrhnerg) — a song of praise or worship
- Asturian: himnu — a song of praise or worship
- Azerbaijani: himn — a song of praise or worship
- Bashkir: гимн (gimn) — a song of praise or worship
- Basque: ereserki — a song of praise or worship
- Belarusian: гімн (himn) — a song of praise or worship
- Bengali: স্তবগান (stobogan) — a song of praise or worship
- Breton: kaniri — a song of praise or worship
- Bulgarian: химн (himn) — a song of praise or worship
- Burmese: ချီးမွမ်းသီချင်း (hkyi:mwam:sihkyang:) — a song of praise or worship
- Catalan: himne — a song of praise or worship
- Chechen: гимн (gimn) — a song of praise or worship
- Chinese Mandarin: 頌 /颂 (sòng) — a song of praise or worship
- Chinese Mandarin: 讚美詩 /赞美诗 (zànměishī) — a song of praise or worship
- Chinese Mandarin: 聖歌 /圣歌 (shènggē) — a song of praise or worship
- Crimean Tatar: gimn — a song of praise or worship
- Czech: chvalozpěv — a song of praise or worship
- Czech: chorál — a song of praise or worship
- Czech: hymnus — a song of praise or worship
- Danish: hymne — a song of praise or worship
- Dutch: lofzang — a song of praise or worship
- Dutch: hymne — a song of praise or worship
- Esperanto: himno — a song of praise or worship
- Estonian: hümn — a song of praise or worship
- Faroese: lovsongur — a song of praise or worship
- Finnish: virsi — a song of praise or worship
- Finnish: hymni — a song of praise or worship
- French: hymne — a song of praise or worship
- West-Frisian: hymne — a song of praise or worship
- Friulian: imni — a song of praise or worship
- Galician: himno — a song of praise or worship
- Georgian: ჰიმნი (himni) — a song of praise or worship
- German: Hymne — a song of praise or worship
- German: Hymnus — a song of praise or worship
- German: Kirchenlied — a song of praise or worship
- German: Loblied — a song of praise or worship
- German: Lobgesang — a song of praise or worship
- Greek: ύμνος (ýmnos) — a song of praise or worship
- Ancient Greek: ὕμνος (húmnos) — a song of praise or worship
- Gujarati: ભજન (bhajan) — a song of praise or worship
- Gujarati: સ્તોત્ર (stotra) — a song of praise or worship
- Gujarati: ઋચા (ŕcā) — a song of praise or worship
- Hebrew: זמירה (z"mirah) — a song of praise or worship
- Hindi: भजन (bhajan) — a song of praise or worship
- Hindi: स्तोत्र (stotra) — a song of praise or worship
- Hungarian: himnusz — a song of praise or worship
- Icelandic: sálmur — a song of praise or worship
- Icelandic: lofsöngur — a song of praise or worship
- Ido: himno — a song of praise or worship
- Indonesian: gita puja — a song of praise or worship
- Indonesian: himne — a song of praise or worship
- Irish: iomann — a song of praise or worship
- Italian: inno — a song of praise or worship
- Japanese: 賛美歌 (sanbika) — a song of praise or worship
- Japanese: 聖歌 (seika) — a song of praise or worship
- Japanese: 賛歌 (sanka) — a song of praise or worship
- Kashubian: himn — a song of praise or worship
- Kazakh: гимн (gimn) — a song of praise or worship
- Korean: 찬가 (chan'ga) — a song of praise or worship
- Korean: 찬미가 (chanmiga) — a song of praise or worship
- Korean: 찬송가 (chansongga) — a song of praise or worship
- Latin: hymnus — a song of praise or worship
- Latvian: himna — a song of praise or worship
- Lithuanian: himnas — a song of praise or worship
- Luxembourgish: Kierchelidd — a song of praise or worship
- Macedonian: химна (himna) — a song of praise or worship
- Malay: gita puja — a song of praise or worship
- Malayalam: ദൈവസ്തുതി (daivastuti) — a song of praise or worship
- Malayalam: സ്തോത്രം (stōtraṁ) — a song of praise or worship
- Malayalam: സങ്കീർത്തനം (saṅkīṟttanaṁ) — a song of praise or worship
- Maltese: innu — a song of praise or worship
- Māori: himene — a song of praise or worship
- Marathi: ईशस्तोत्र (īśastotra) — a song of praise or worship
- Marathi: भजन (bhajan) — a song of praise or worship
- Motu: ane — a song of praise or worship
- Nahuatl: cuicatl — a song of praise or worship
- Norman: cantique — a song of praise or worship
- Norwegian: hymne — a song of praise or worship
- Occitan: imne — a song of praise or worship
- Ossetian: гимн (gimn) — a song of praise or worship
- Persian: سرود (sorud) — a song of praise or worship
- Persian: گاتا (gâtâ) — a song of praise or worship
- Persian: یسنا (yasnâ) — a song of praise or worship
- Plautdietsch: Kjoakjenleet — a song of praise or worship
- Polish: hymn — a song of praise or worship
- Portuguese: hino — a song of praise or worship
- Punjabi: ਗੀਤ (gīt) — a song of praise or worship
- Punjabi: ਪਦ (pad) — a song of praise or worship
- Punjabi: ਭਜਨ (bhajan) — a song of praise or worship
- Romanian: imn — a song of praise or worship
- Romansh: imni — a song of praise or worship
- Russian: гимн (gimn) — a song of praise or worship
- Scots: hime — a song of praise or worship
- Scottish Gaelic: laoidh — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: химна — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: славопојка — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: славопев — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: славопевка — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: himna — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: slavopojka — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: slavopev — a song of praise or worship
- Serbo-Croatian: slavopevka — a song of praise or worship
- Slovak: chválospev — a song of praise or worship
- Slovak: hymnus — a song of praise or worship
- Slovene: himna — a song of praise or worship
- Lower Sorbian: hymna — a song of praise or worship
- Upper Sorbian: hymna — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: himno — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: salmo — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: cántico — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: canto — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: motete — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: aleluya — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: miserere — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: réquiem — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: antífona — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: salmodia — a song of praise or worship
- Swahili: wimbo — a song of praise or worship
- Swedish: hymn — a song of praise or worship
- Swedish: lovsång — a song of praise or worship
- Tagalog: himno — a song of praise or worship
- Tamil: பாசுரம் (pācuram) — a song of praise or worship
- Tamil: தேவாரம் (tēvāram) — a song of praise or worship
- Thai: เพลงสวด (pleeng-sùuat) — a song of praise or worship
- Tibetan: ཆོས་གླུ (chos glu) — a song of praise or worship
- Tibetan: མགུར (mgur) — a song of praise or worship
- Tumbuka: sumu — a song of praise or worship
- Tumbuka: lusumu — a song of praise or worship
- Turkish: ilahi — a song of praise or worship
- Turkmen: gimn — a song of praise or worship
- Ukrainian: гімн (himn) — a song of praise or worship
- Urdu: حَمْد (ḥamd) — a song of praise or worship
- Urdu: ثَنا (s̱anā) — a song of praise or worship
- Urdu: کَلام (kalām) — a song of praise or worship
- Urdu: نَظْم (naz̤m) — a song of praise or worship
- Uzbek: madhiya — a song of praise or worship
- Vietnamese: thánh ca — a song of praise or worship
- Volapük: hüm — a song of praise or worship
- Welsh: emyn — a song of praise or worship
- Yiddish: הימנע (himne) — a song of praise or worship
- Spanish: salmear — Translations
- Spanish: salmodiar — Translations