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    BOOK OF PSALMS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A collection of Psalms for liturgical useplay

    Synonyms:

    Book of Psalms; Psalter

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("Book of Psalms" is a kind of...):

    prayer book; prayerbook (a book containing prayers)

    Holonyms ("Book of Psalms" is a part of...):

    Book of Common Prayer (the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    An Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalmsplay

    Synonyms:

    Book of Psalms; Psalms

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Instance hypernyms:

    book (a major division of a long written composition)

    Holonyms ("Book of Psalms" is a part of...):

    Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

    Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

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