anthems
Meaning of anthems
plural noun
- a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause.
the song became the anthem for hippy activists
- a musical setting of a religious text to be sung by a choir during a church service, especially in Anglican or Protestant Churches.
Old English antefn, antifne (denoting a composition sung antiphonally), from late Latin antiphona (see antiphon). The spelling with th, which began in the 16th century, was on the pattern of similar words such as Antony, Anthony .
Information about anthems
- It is a name.
- The singular form of anthems is: anthem.
- Languages in which anthems is used:
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Hyphenation of anthems
an-thems
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- anthems is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
anthems synonyms
Meaning a religious song or poem of praise to God or a god:
Meaning a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung:
Meaning a stately hymn tune, especially one associated with the German Lutheran Church:
Meaning a sacred song or hymn, in particular any of those contained in the biblical Book of Psalms and used in Christian and Jewish worship:
Meaning a creative work expressing enthusiastic praise:
Meaning unaccompanied church music sung in unison in medieval modes and in free rhythm corresponding to the accentuation of the words, which are taken from the liturgy:
Meaning a repeated rhythmic phrase, typically one shouted or sung in unison by a crowd:
Meaning a hymn or chant, typically with a biblical text, forming a regular part of a church service:
Anagrams of anthems
Words that rhyme with anthems
hems, ahems, sachems, rehems, maihems, cephems, dirhems, apothems, epithems, erathems, exanthems, speleothems, mayhems
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