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o antiphon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables
o an-tiphon
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the antiphons sung or read at vespers at the end of Advent, in the days immediately before Christmas, each beginning “O …” in Latin and English, addressing Christ and beseeching him to come; the basis for the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”.

Inflected Forms

O Antiphons (plural)

Synonyms

Greater Antiphon

Questions

What does o antiphon mean?
One of the antiphons sung or read at vespers at the end of Advent, in the days immediately before Christmas, each beginning “O …” in Latin and English, addressing Christ and beseeching him to come; the basis for the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”.

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