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Antiphony

Definitions: Antiphony

Antiphony

Noun

1. Alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts.

2. A verse or song to be chanted or sung in response.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "antiphony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Note: Antiphony \An*tiph"o*ny\, noun; plural Antiphonies. [See Antiphon.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Antiphony

Synonym: antiphon (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Antiphony

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Answer

Noun: answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript, rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement.

Worship

Psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet; antiphon, antiphony.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Antiphony

English words defined with "antiphony": Antiphonies. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Antiphony

DomainTitle

Books

  • Antiphony of Bells (A Nostalgic Haiku Journey Through Italy) (reference)

  • The Antiphony (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Antiphony

"Antiphony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Antiphony" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Antiphony

Language Translations for "antiphony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Wechselgesang. (various references)

   

Italian

  

antifona (anthem). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antiphonyay

   

Russian 

  

переменное пение двух хоров. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

antifoni, karşılıklı okunan ilâhi. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tiếng dội, b i thánh ca b i hát đối tiếng vang. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Antiphony

Misspellings

"Antiphony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Antiphoner. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Antiphony"

Words rhyming with "antiphony" (pronounced 'An*tiph"o*ny'): Acrimony, Acrophony, AEgophony, Agony, Agrimony, Agrotechny, Alimony, Alleghany, Amphictyony, Amphigony, Ancony, Anemony, Angelophany, Antagony, Anthropogeny, Antimony, Archegony, Astrogeny, Astrogony, Atony, Autochthony, Autophony, Averpenny, Balcony, Barony, Baryphony, Betony, Binny, Blenny, Branny, Brimstony, Briony, Bronchophony, Bryony, Cacophony, Cacotechny, Calumny, Cassidony, Castellany, Catchpenny, Ceremony, Chalcedony, Chapellany, Chatellany, Christophany, Colophany, Colophony, Conny, Coparceny, Cormogeny. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Antiphony

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-i-n-n-o-p-t-y"

-1 letter: antiphon.

-2 letters: pintano.

-3 letters: anoint, hatpin, nation, painty, phyton, pinyon, pointy, python, typhon.

-4 letters: anion, annoy, atony, atopy, hinny, honan, inapt, ninth, niton, paint, panto, panty, patin, patio, phony, piano, pinna, pinny, pinon, pinot, pinta, pinto, pithy, piton, point, tinny, tophi, yapon.

-5 letters: ahoy, anon, anti, atop, ayin, hant, hint, hoya, hypo, into, iota, naoi.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-n-n-o-p-t-y"
 

+2 letters: antiphonary, hyphenation.

 

+3 letters: antiphonally, hyphenations, hypoxanthine.

 

+4 letters: hypoxanthines.

 

+5 letters: hyperinflation, nonpsychiatric, phthalocyanine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Antiphony


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 74 69 70 68 6F 6E 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.    -    ..    .--.    ....    ---    -.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#110 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0074 0069 0070 0068 006F 006E 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358086758274818091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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