“Adeste Fideles”

Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

With toy instruments, sleigh bells, cracking whips and a stirring instrumental setting of the hymn “Adeste Fideles,” “Santa Claus” was an innovative, seamless single-movement narrative, in the vein of Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems.

From New York Times

At the boys’ annual holiday concert at Carnegie Hall, on Dec. 8, they apply their plangent sound to a grab bag of holiday-themed tunes that include “Adeste Fideles,” “Let It Snow!,”

From The New Yorker

There bad been mummers to play an exciting dramatic presentation of a story in which St. George and a Saracen and a funny Doctor did surprising things, also carol- singers who rendered “Adeste Fideles” and “I Sing of a Maiden,” in high, clear, tenor voices.

From Literature

As I shaved, the joyous strains of a daughter playing “Adeste Fideles” suddenly broke through the chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal

“First the Germans would sing one of their carols and then we would sing one of ours, until when we started up ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’ the Germans immediately joined in singing the same hymn to the Latin words Adeste Fideles.

From Time