hosanna

Interjection

1. A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church.

Noun

hosanna (plural hosannas)

1. A cry of ‘hosanna’.
   • When we arrived in New York, we found a day of extreme brilliance. It would be impossible ever to forget the first sight of the groups of slender towers that form the skyline of New York City, chanting hosannas to an autumn sky.1962 February, Osbert Sitwell, “New York in the Twenties”, in The Atlantic
   • Imagine God in Heaven surrounded by the choirs of adoring angels singing hosannahs unendingly.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 24

Verb

hosanna (third-person singular simple present hosannas, present participle hosannaing, simple past and past participle hosannaed)

1. (intransitive) To give a cry of ‘hosanna’.