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# canticle

«canticle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A song or hymn with words from the Bible, sung in church…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a canticle, canticles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) A song or hymn with words from the Bible, sung in church services, such as the Magnificat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#m1)

2) (literary) A song of praise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in church life and choir: canticles are sung at morning and evening prayer. It tells the reader about a holy song of praise. Phrases: the canticle of Mary, sing the canticles.

### examples

- The choir sang a canticle at evening prayer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x1)
- The Magnificat is the canticle of Mary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x2)
- We learned a canticle for the Christmas service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x3)
- The monks sang canticles before dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x4)
- A canticle is like a psalm sung in church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x5)
- The organist played softly before the canticle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x6)
- St Francis wrote the Canticle of the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/#x7)

### note

Countable: canticles. A church word; similar: hymn, psalm, chant. A psalm comes from the Book of Psalms; a canticle comes from other parts of the Bible.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «canticle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canticle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.