antiphon

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see also: Antiphon

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæntɪfən/

Noun

antiphon (plural antiphons)

1. A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
2. A response or reply.
   • 2007, Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:

     The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’

Translations

• Italian: antifona
• Portuguese: antífona
• Spanish: antífona

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Antiphon

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Proper noun

1. an Ancient Greek sophist who wrote several philosophical treatises (480 – 411 BCE)
2. the brother of Plato
3. the earliest of the ten orators, an important figure in fifth-century Athenian political and intellectual life, from Rhamnus

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