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PSALTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Psalter mean? 

PSALTER (noun)
  The noun PSALTER has 1 sense:

1. a collection of Psalms for liturgical useplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PSALTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of Psalms for liturgical use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Psalms; Psalter

Hypernyms ("Psalter" is a kind of...):

prayer book; prayerbook (a book containing prayers)

Holonyms ("Psalter" 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)


 Context examples 


Tell your beads, father, and con your psalter, but do not come between me and those whom the king has given to me!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was brother Bartholomew with a crucifix of rare carved ivory, and brother Luke with a white-backed psalter adorned with golden bees, and brother Francis with the Slaying of the Innocents most daintily set forth upon vellum.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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