Word.ws English Dictionary

hymns

hymns is the plural of hymn.

hymns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hymn.

Meaning of hymn

Noun

hymn (plural hymns)

  1. A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
    • But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

See all 3 meanings of hymn

Phrases with hymns

Questions about hymns

What is hymns the plural of?
Hymns is the plural of hymn.

Words near hymns in the dictionary

  1. hymnologically
  2. hymnologies
  3. hymnologist
  4. hymnologists
  5. hymnology
  6. hymns
  7. hymnsheet
  8. hymnsheets
  9. hymnwriter
  10. hymnwriters
  11. hymnwriting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hymns (page history and authors); hymn (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-hymns.ogg.

Cite this entry: “hymns.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hymns. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.