anthem

Noun
  1. A song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school) (synset 107062968)
    is a type of: song, vocal - a short musical composition with words
    subtypes: national anthem - a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation
  2. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) (synset 107049616)
    is a type of: religious song - religious music for singing
    subtypes:
    • dithyramb - (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)
    • doxology - a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
    • choral, chorale - a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune
    • canticle - a hymn derived from the Bible
    • hymeneal - a wedding hymn
    • paean, pean - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
    • recessional - a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
    specific instances:
    • dies irae - the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath')
    • internationale - a revolutionary socialist anthem
    • te deum - an ancient liturgical hymn
    same as: hymn

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