Vespers

Definition: Vespers

Vespers

Noun

1. The sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays.

Date "vespers" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonym: Vespers

Synonym: evensong (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Vespers

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox liturgies of the canonical hours. The word comes from Latin vesper, meaning "evening."

The general structure of the Roman Catholic service of vespers is as follows:

Vespers opens with the singing or chanting of the words, Deus in adiutorium meum intende; Domine ad adiuvandum me festina. (O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.)
A hymn is then sung;
Anywhere from two to four psalms are then sung, with the psalms concluding in a doxology and answered by an antiphon.
After the psalms, there is a reading from the New Testament.
Following the reading, the participants sing the Magnificat, the canticle of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Gospel of Luke I:46-55.
Then a litany is recited, the Lord's Prayer, and a closing prayer.

The psalms and hymns of the Vespers service have attracted the interest of many composers, including Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anton Bruckner, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

See also: Mass (music); requiem; sacred music; Book of Hours

External link:

The Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vespers."

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Synonyms within Context: Vespers

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Worship	Divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins, evensong, vespers; undernsong, tierce; holyday; (rites).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vespers

English words defined with "vespers": Little hours ♦ placebo. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vespers": Ringing Island ♦ Sicilian Vespers. (references)

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Modern Usage: Vespers

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Vespers (1999)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Vespers

Domain	Title
Books	Monteverdi: Vespers (1610) (reference) Sicilian Vespers (reference) The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance (reference) The Sicilian Vespers : A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (reference) Vespers (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass For Unaccompanied Chorus) (reference) Vespers for the Imperial Chapel Charles VI Vienna (reference) Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Vespers

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He took a Jesuit confessor, and went both to high mass and to vespers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Vespers

"Vespers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Vespers" is used about 36 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	55.56%	20	78,262
Noun (proper)	44.44%	16	87,710
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

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

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Expression: Vespers

Expression using "vespers": sicilian vespers. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vespers

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
vespers	25
sicilian vespers	7
scout vespers	4
mozart vespers	2
lutheran vespers	2
rachmaninoff vespers	2
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Modern Translations: Vespers

Language		Translations for "vespers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbrëmjesore (vesper). (various references)

Arabic		‏نجوم السماء, ‏صلاة المساء. (various references)

Bulgarian		вечерня (evensong). (various references)

Czech		veèer (evening, in the evening, night), odpolední, nešpory. (various references)

Farsi		نمازمغرب , عبادت شامگاهی . (various references)

French		vêpres. (various references)

German		vesper (break), mette (Matins). (various references)

Greek		εσπερινόσ (even song, evening prayer, evensong, vesper, vespertine). (various references)

Hungarian		vecsernye (litany), esti istentisztelet (even song). (various references)

Italian		vespro (evening). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		入相の鐘 (evening bell, vespers bell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いりあいのかね (evening bell, vespers bell). (various references)

Manx		asbyrt (evensong). (various references)

Pig Latin		espersvay

Portuguese		vésperas. (various references)

Russian		вечерня (evensong). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		večernja služba. (various references)

Spanish		vísperas (evening prayers, evensong). (various references)

Swedish		vesper. (various references)

Turkish		akşam duası vakti, akşam duası (evensong), akğam duası (evensong). (various references)

Ukranian		вечерня (nones). (various references)

Welsh		gosber. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vespers

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vespera. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Vespers

Misspellings
	"Vespers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Vespa, Vespan, Vespas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vespers"

Words rhyming with "vespers" (pronounced 'Ves"pers'): Nippers. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vespers

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
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	-5 letters: er, es, pe, re.
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