Top Definitions
Quizzes
Examples

“Adeste Fideles”

[ (ah-des-tay fi-day-lis) ]

Save This Word!

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

QUIZZES

THINK YOU’VE GOT A HANDLE ON THIS US STATE NICKNAME QUIZ?

Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.

Question 1 of 8

Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

The Sunflower State

The Evergreen State

The Magnolia State

The Mockingbird State

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Words nearby “Adeste Fideles”

adequate stimulus, adermia, adermogenesis, -ades, adessive, “Adeste Fideles”, ad eundem gradum, à deux, ad extremum, ADF, ADFA

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Example sentences from the Web for “Adeste Fideles”

It dates to 1740s Britain and of course was written originally in Latin (“Adeste Fideles”).
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This passage is based on Fideles modo quia mortuos suos fide et virtutibus conditos aiunt .
Selections from Early Middle English 1130-1250: Part II: Notes|Various
Econtra, naturales ac fideles regis, ipsius minas paruipendentes, immo Fol.
Beowulf|R. W. Chambers
The crosses and stars with which modern potentates decorate their fideles, we do not expect to see these in the market.
Domesday Book and Beyond|Frederic William Maitland

His heart gave a bound of delight as he heard the familiar lines and notes of the Adeste.
My New Curate|P.A. Sheehan
The women-folk began to clear their throats for the Adeste Fideles with which the festivity concluded.
Mary Gray|Katharine Tynan

See Today's Synonym