Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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Synonyms: Hail Holy Queen
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noun
A musical setting of this hymn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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History
Learned borrowing from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.
Across languages
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