| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·ti·phon |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n t -f n |
| NOUN: | 1. A devotional composition sung responsively as part of a liturgy. 2a. A short liturgical text chanted or sung responsively preceding or following a psalm, psalm verse, or canticle. b. Such a text formerly used as a response but now rendered independently. 3. A response; a reply: “It would be truer . . . to see [conservation] as an antiphon to the modernization of the 1950s and 1960s” (Raphael Samuel). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin antiph na, sung responses. See anthem.
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