“Adeste Fideles”

Cultural  

1. The Latin version of “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”

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Example Sentences

She took requests — “Rock of Ages” and “Adeste Fideles” were popular — did not follow a set program, and played whatever she felt like at the moment.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2014

In the season of “Adeste Fideles” and “The First Noel,” the musical sticks with “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2013

This hymn of Charles Wesley, dating about 1730, was evidently written with the “Adeste Fideles” in mind, some of the stanzas, in fact, being almost like translations of it.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron