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单词 psalm
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
psalm /sɑm/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Music and Dancea sacred song or hymn.
  2. Bible any of the songs, hymns, or prayers contained in the Book of Psalms in the Bible:[often: Psalm]Psalm 92; the Twenty-third Psalm.
psalm•ist, n. [countable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
psalm  (säm),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Music and Dancea sacred song or hymn.
  2. Bible(cap.) any of the songs, hymns, or prayers contained in the Book of Psalms.
  3. Music and Dancea metric version or paraphrase of any of these.
  4. Poetrya poem of a similar nature.
  • Greek psalmós song sung to the harp, origin, originally, a plucking, as of strings, akin to psállein to pluck, pull, play (the harp)
  • Late Latin psalmus
  • Middle English psalm(e), s(e)alm(e), psame, Old English ps(e)alm, sealm bef. 900
psalmic, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
psalm /sɑːm/ n
  1. (often capital) any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems, and prayers that together constitute a book (Psalms) of the Old Testament
  2. a musical setting of one of these poems
  3. any sacred song or hymn
Etymology: Old English, from Late Latin psalmus, from Greek psalmos song accompanied on the harp, from psallein to play (the harp)

ˈpsalmic adj
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