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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024psalm /sɑm/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Music and Dancea sacred song or hymn.
- 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 © 2024psalm (säm),USA pronunciation n. - Music and Dancea sacred song or hymn.
- Bible(cap.) any of the songs, hymns, or prayers contained in the Book of Psalms.
- Music and Dancea metric version or paraphrase of any of these.
- 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
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: psalm /sɑːm/ n - (often capital) any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems, and prayers that together constitute a book (Psalms) of the Old Testament
- a musical setting of one of these poems
- 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 |