PSALMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Psalms mean? 

• PSALMS (noun)
  The noun PSALMS has 1 sense:

1. an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms

  Familiarity information: PSALMS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSALMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Psalms; Psalms

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("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)

 Context examples 

To me, by the length and the look of it, I should judge this to be a verse from one of the Psalms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Psalms are not interesting," I remarked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls because they did not go to a particular Sabbath school, nor all the good infants who did go as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisping tongues.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And the Psalms?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

'Then the worse for thy soul!' said he; and with that he broke into a long tale how that on account of the virtues of the Abbot Berghersh it had been decreed by the Pope that whoever should wear the habit of a monk of Beaulieu for as long as he might say the seven psalms of David should be assured of the kingdom of Heaven.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have, a gingerbread-nut to eat or a verse of a Psalm to learn, he says: 'Oh! the verse of a Psalm! angels sing Psalms;' says he, 'I wish to be a little angel here below;' he then gets two nuts in recompense for his infant piety.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)