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antiphone

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

antiphone (plural antiphones)

  1. (music, archaic) antiphon

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antiphon

English

Etymology

From French antiphone or Medieval Latin antiph?na, from Ancient Greek ???????? (antíph?na, responses, musical accords), neuter plural substantive of ????????? (antíph?nos, concordant) from ???? (antí, in return) + ???? (ph?n?, sound). Compare anthem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ænt?f?n/

Noun

antiphon (plural antiphons)

  1. A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
  2. A response or reply.
    • 2007, Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:
      The Clown [] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’

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