alleluia
Americaninterjection
noun
interjection
noun
Other Word Forms
- alleluiatic adjective
Etymology
Origin of alleluia
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek allēlouíā, from Hebrew halĕlûyāh “praise Yahweh”; hallelujah ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The Oxford English Dictionary lists eight English transliterations from the Hebrew, including alleluia, allelujah and hallelujiah.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021
It’s the school-by-school cancellation for 2020 of on-campus football tailgating, that national art form of runaway merriment mingled with an alleluia of fat grams.
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020
Eat his Body, drink his Blood, And we'll sing a song of loves: Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia!
From Time Magazine Archive
A band called Forty Days was playing a song titled Alle, alleluia, when Ashbrook was allegedly invited to accept the Lord.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others, following a venerable tradition, say that the three first lines were the composition of angels, and the fourth, Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia, was added by Pope Gregory.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
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