an·ti·phon 
(ăntə-fŏn′)
(ăntə-fŏn′)n.
1. A devotional composition sung responsively as part of a liturgy.
2.
a. 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).
[Late Latin antiphōna, sung responses; see ANTHEM.]
- conservative
- Conservative Judaism
- conservatively
- conservativeness
- conservator
- conservatorial
- conservatorship
- conservatory
- conserve
- conserver
- consider
- considerable
- considerably
- considerate
- considerately
- considerateness
- consideration
- considered
- considerer
- considering
- consigliere
- consign
- consignable
- consignation
- consignee