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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishymne, fromOld Englishymen (reinforced byOld Frenchymne), fromLatinhymnus, borrowed fromAncient Greekὕμνος(húmnos).

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Noun

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hymn (pluralhymns)

  1. Asong ofpraise orworship, especially areligious one.
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned thehymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
    • 1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page163:
      An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays ahymn. But it has no faces.

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Translations

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a song of praise or worship

Verb

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hymn (third-person singular simple presenthymns,present participlehymning,simple past and past participlehymned)

  1. (ambitransitive) Tosing a hymn.
    • 2009 January 21, Michael Coveney, “Tom O'Horgan”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton,hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second.
  2. (transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.

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Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinhymnus, fromAncient Greekὕμνος(húmnos).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hymn m inan

  1. (music)anthem
  2. (poetry, religion)hymn

Declension

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Declension ofhymn
singularplural
nominativehymnhymny
genitivehymnuhymnów
dativehymnowihymnom
accusativehymnhymny
instrumentalhymnemhymnami
locativehymniehymnach
vocativehymniehymny

Derived terms

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adjective

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • hymn inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • hymn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

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Noun

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hymn c

  1. hymn,anthem

Declension

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Declension ofhymn
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitehymnhymns
definitehymnenhymnens
pluralindefinitehymnerhymners
definitehymnernahymnernas
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