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Answer for the clue "Patriotic song ", 6 letters:
anthem

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Word definitions for anthem in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anthem \An"them\ ([a^]n"th[e^]m), n. [OE. antym, antefne, AS. antefen, fr. LL. antiphona, fr. Gr. 'anti`fwna, neut. pl. of 'anti`fwnon antiphon, or anthem, n. neut., from 'anti`fwnos sounding contrary, returning a sound; 'anti` over ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) antiphon. 2 A choral or vocal composition, often with a religious or political lyric. 3 A hymn of praise or loyalty. 4 (context informal English) A very popular song or track. vb. (context transitive poetic English) To celebrate ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) [syn: hymn ]

Usage examples of anthem.

From the definition of anosognosia to the words of the national anthem, we share a common knowledge domain.

I hav lade awake, all nite long, menny a time and listened to the sweet anthems ov the muskeeter.

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The pista program resumed, and again went perfectly, and closed with a reprise of the anthem.

Musing thus, he received a cold note ordering him to perform what seemed to be a final scriptorial office, namely to compose a kind of national anthem for Elizabethan England.

The melody on the theremin halted abruptly, then plunged into the soaring theme of the Victory Anthem.

And most of the French Railway officials agreed that the Argentinean anthem, like the sun-god flag, was a bit overdone.

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Whistler, wearing a tall, Lincolnesque stovepipe hat, a black dustcoat and round opaque white glasses and looking like nothing so much as a cartoon, launched into a weird Star-Wars Cantina anthem at major decibels on his synthesizer.

A wild turn of mind now launched my soul to the old beloved spot on the Eureka, and there I struck out the following anthem.

I will quench the footlights, so the pista will be dark when Boom-Boom swings into the anthem for the come-in.

Doone and Hoolihan, sure, but for every Doone man or Hoolihan man that makes it out before the anthem freezes him on his hobnails, an extra point, right?

Papa realize that morning that he was never to see us or hold us again, nor would he ever again harken to the meadowlarks of Yell County trilling a joyous anthem to spring.

The idiot rode strumming his banjo, playing over and over the last two tunes he had heard, regaling the countryside alternately with the national anthems of Dixie and France.

The team was jumping up and down overhead, giving Watutsi homage and anthem from the motherland.