• n. 贊美詩；圣歌；歡樂的歌
• vt. 唱贊美歌
• vi. 唱贊歌

來自拉丁語hymnus,頌歌，來自希臘語hymnos,贊美神或英雄的頌詩，頌歌，來自PIE*sam,吟唱。

hymn

hymn: [13] For the ancient Greeks, a húmnos was a ‘song of praise’ – but not necessarily a religious one. It could be used to celebrate the deeds of heroes as well as to compliment the gods. However, the Greek Septuagint uses it to render various Hebrew words meaning ‘song praising God’, and it was this meaning that was carried via Latin hymnus and Old French ymne into English as imne (the spelling hymn is a 16thcentury latinization).

hymn (n.)

c. 1000, from Old French ymne and Old English ymen, both from Latin hymnus "song of praise," from Greek hymnos "song or ode in praise of gods or heroes," used in Septuagint for various Hebrew words meaning "song praising God." Possibly a variant of hymenaios "wedding song," from Hymen, Greek god of marriage (see hymen), or from a PIE root *sam- "to sing" (cognates: Hittite i?hamai "he sings," Sanskrit saman- "hymn, song") [Watkins]. Evidence for the silent -n- dates from at least 1530.

1. The service opened with a hymn.

禮拜儀式從唱圣歌開始。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The congregation stood to sing the hymn.

會眾站起來唱圣歌。

來自《權威詞典》

3. In such words as hymn , condemn, bomb , for example, the last letter of each is silent.

在如hymn,condemn, bomb這些詞里, 每一個單詞的最后一個字母是不發音的.

來自互聯網

4. The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.

這首贊歌是希臘一位名不見經傳的作曲家為1896年的雅典奧運會創作的。

來自柯林斯例句

5. We should bring together the departments so that we're all singing from the same hymn sheet.

我們應該把各部門聯合起來，這樣我們就能意見一致了。

來自柯林斯例句