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  • noun

Synonyms for anthem

song of praise

Synonyms for anthem



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Jehan go every evening to chapel, and sing there an anthem with verse and orison to Madame the glorious Virgin Mary.
The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being sung; you could not hear the droning sermon, and your body twitched because you had to sit still when you wanted to move about.
Thomson; Ensigns Hicks and Grady; the band on the pier playing the national anthem, and the crowd loudly cheering the gallant veterans as they went into Wayte's hotel, where a sumptuous banquet was provided for the defenders of Old England.
Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, had emphasized the need for an Earth anthem - "to pay tribute to our planet, to remind ourselves of our responsibilities as global citizens, and in conjunction with the many other anthems we sing to remember that we have a supra-national loyalty alongside the claims of our nation, our state, or our favourite football team.
I make no claim to have conducted scientific research on the subject, but in 15 years of listening to anthems from press boxes and press rows, I'd estimate that a patriotic 76 percent of singers find some way to screw it up.
Both teams had lined up at midfield for the anthems, but the first anthem played wasn't Honduras'.