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How to pronounce hymn in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms anthem
Type of religious song
Has types choral, chorale, dithyramb, doxology, hymeneal, canticle, paean, pean, recessional
Type Words
Type of glorify, laud, exalt, extol, proclaim


They hymned their love of God.
Type Words
Type of sing

Examples of hymn

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The FA need to get all our players and coaches singing from the same hymn sheet.
From the people.co.uk
All the future leadership contenders are singing from the same policy hymn book.
From the nzherald.co.nz
But Panagopoulos will not be singing from the same hymn sheet as Diamantopoulou.
From the guardian.co.uk
As they entered the sanctuary we all rose and joined them in singing that hymn.
From the lillian-hunter.blogspot.com
A Christmas carol differs from a hymn because it is set to a dance tune, he said.
From the post-gazette.com
Mergitu jokingly elbowed her grandfather, trying to follow the words of a hymn.
From the washingtonpost.com
She feels the lack of affection between him and her pious, hymn-playing mother.
From the washingtonpost.com
To paraphrase a classic country hymn that Willie favors, the circle was unbroken.
From the time.com
Finally, the poem is a hymn to mutual feeling, understanding, balance, constancy.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
  • Sing a hymn
  • A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word hymn derives from Greek u1F55u03BCu03BDu03BFu03C2 (hymnos), which means "a song of praise". The singing of hymns is called hymnody. Collections of hymns are known as hymnals or hymn books...
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  • Cu00E6dmon (/u02C8ku00E6dmu0259n/ or /u02C8ku00E6dmu0252n/) is the earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonu00E6shalch (Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy (657u2013680) of St. Hilda (614u2013680), he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century historian Bede...
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  • A song of praise or worship; To sing a hymn; to praise or worship by singing