| Main Entry: | vespers |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening prayer |
Synonyms: |
evensong, prayer |
| Main Entry: | vespers |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
Synonyms: |
evensong, orison, service |
| Main Entry: | vesper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
Synonyms: |
black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, gloaming, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | bell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | signaling object or sound |
Synonyms: |
alarm, buzz, buzzer, carillon, chime, clapper, curfew, ding-dong, dinger, gong, peal, ringer, siren, tintinnabulum, tocsin, toll, vesper |
| Main Entry: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
Synonyms: |
black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
Antonyms: |
daybreak |
| Main Entry: | worship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honoring, glorification |
Synonyms: |
adoration, adulation, awe, beatification, benediction, chapel, church service, deification, devotion, exaltation, genuflection, glory, homage, honor, idolatry, idolization, invocation, laudation, love, offering, praise, prayer, prostration, regard, respect, reverence, rite, ritual, service, supplication, veneration, vespers |
| Main Entry: | evening star |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | planet seen in west at sunset |
Synonyms: |
Hesper, Hesperus, Venus, Vesper |
Antonyms: |
morning star |
| Concept: | Worship. |
| Category: | 4. Acts of religion |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration., prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing; petition (request); collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster; beadroll; latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils; revival; cult; anxious meeting, camp meeting; ebenezer, virginal., thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah; Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis; paean; benschen; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion., psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet; antiphon, antiphony., oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory., discipline; self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial; fasting., divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins, evensong, vespers; undernsong, tierce; holyday (rites)., worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant.
-verbs
worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere; adore, do service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship., pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions; beseech (ask); say one's prayers, tell one's beads., return thanks, give thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises; give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off [U.S.], propitiate, offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms,, work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate (rite).
-adjectives
worshipping; devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn; fervid (heartfelt).
-phrases
"making their lives a prayer" [Whitter]; ora et labora; "prayers ardent open heaven" [Young].
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