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canticles

canticles is the plural of canticle.

Meaning of canticle

Noun

canticle (plural canticles)

  1. A chant, hymn or song, especially a nonmetrical one, with words from a biblical text.

Proper noun capitalized: Canticles

Canticles

  1. Synonym of Song of Songs, a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
    Synonyms:
    Song of Songs

Synonyms of canticles

Origin of canticles

A clipping of Canticle of Canticles, a calque of Latin Canticum Canticorum (“Song of Songs”).

Phrases with canticles

Questions about canticles

What does canticles mean?
Canticles means synonym of Song of Songs, a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
What is canticles the plural of?
Canticles is the plural of canticle.
What part of speech is canticles?
Canticles is a proper noun.

Words near canticles in the dictionary

  1. Cantiasay
  2. cantic
  3. cantica
  4. canticle
  5. Canticle of Canticles
  6. canticles
  7. cantico
  8. canticoes
  9. canticos
  10. canticoy
  11. canticoys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canticles (page history and authors); Canticles (page history and authors); canticle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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