sing off the same hymn sheet
Alternative form of sing from the same hymnbook.
hymn
/hɪm/
verb 2noun 1
Collocations
6(noun.)
ADJ
rousing
The choir sang a rousing hymn that got everyone on their feet.
traditional | modern
VERB + HYMN
play, sing
HYMN + NOUN
book | tune
Definitions
noun
1
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.
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 a hymn. But it has no faces.
verb
1
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.
2
To praise or extol in hymns.
To hymn the birth-night of the Lord.
Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
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Synonyms
noun — a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
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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 trin
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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
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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.
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To hymn the birth-night of the Lord.
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Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
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The morning service began with a hymn.
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