hymn

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   praise by singing a hymn

   They hymned their love of God.

2. 2
   noun

   A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.

   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 the hymn 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.

3. 3
   verb

   To sing a hymn.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To praise or extol in hymns.

   To hymn the birth-night of the Lord.

From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).

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