hymn - a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)dithyramb - (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) doxology - a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God choral, chorale - a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune canticle - a hymn derived from the Bible Dies Irae - the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath') pean, paean - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) recessional - a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw Te Deum - an ancient liturgical hymn |