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HYMNBOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hymnbook mean?
• HYMNBOOK (noun)
The noun HYMNBOOK has 1 sense:
1. a songbook containing a collection of hymns
Familiarity information: HYMNBOOK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A songbook containing a collection of hymns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("hymnbook" is a kind of...):
songbook (a book containing a collection of songs)
Context examples
On the table she laid her little testament and hymnbook, kept a vase always full of the best flowers Laurie brought her, and came every day to 'sit alone' thinking good thoughts, and praying the dear God to preserve her sister.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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