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Hymn vs. Anthem

Hymn and Anthem Definitions

Hymn

A song of praise or thanksgiving to God or a deity.

Anthem

A hymn of praise or loyalty.

Hymn

A song of praise or joy; a paean.

Anthem

A choral composition having a sacred or moralizing text in English.

Hymn

To praise, glorify, or worship in or as if in a hymn.

Anthem

A popular song, especially a rock song felt to sum up the attitudes or feelings associated with a period or social group.
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Hymn

To sing hymns.

Anthem

(archaic) Antiphon.

Hymn

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

Anthem

A choral or vocal composition, often with a religious or political lyric.
The school's anthem sang of its many outstanding qualities, and it was hard to keep a straight face while singing.

Hymn

(ambitransitive) To sing a hymn.

Anthem

A hymn of praise or loyalty.
The choir sang a selection of Christmas anthems at the service just before the big day.
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Hymn

(transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.

Anthem

(informal) A very popular song or track.

Hymn

An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thanksgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.
Where angels first should practice hymns, and stringTheir tuneful harps.

Anthem

To celebrate with anthems.

Hymn

To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
To hymn the bright of the Lord.
Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

Anthem

Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.
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Hymn

To sing in praise or adoration.

Anthem

A song or hymn of praise or devotion; as, a national anthem.

Hymn

A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

Anthem

To celebrate with anthems.
Sweet birds antheming the morn.

Hymn

Sing a hymn

Anthem

A song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school)

Hymn

Praise by singing a hymn;
They hymned their love of God

Anthem

A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

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