Associations to the word «Hymn»

Wiktionary

HYMN, noun. A song of praise or worship.
HYMN, verb. (transitive) To sing (a hymn).
HYMN, verb. (transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
HYMN BOOK, noun. Alternative form of hymnbook
HYMN BOOKS, noun. Plural of hymn book

Dictionary definition

HYMN, noun. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
HYMN, verb. Sing a hymn.
HYMN, verb. Praise by singing a hymn; "They hymned their love of God".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats