Antiphon

Gujarati Meaning

પ્રતિધ્વનિ કે કાવ્ય

English Meaning

  1. A devotional composition sung responsively as part of a liturgy.
  2. A short liturgical text chanted or sung responsively preceding or following a psalm, psalm verse, or canticle.
  3. Such a text formerly used as a response but now rendered independently.
  4. A response; a reply: "It would be truer . . . to see [conservation] as an antiphon to the modernization of the 1950s and 1960s” ( Raphael Samuel).