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• amen
  amen

  interjection

  it is so; so be it (used after a prayer, creed, or other formal statement to express solemn ratification or agreement).
• Amen
  Amen

  noun

  a primeval deity worshiped especially at Thebes, the personification of air or breath represented as either a ram or a goose (later identified with Amen-Ra).

amen

¹ American  

[ey-men, ah-men] / ˈeɪˈmɛn, ˈɑˈmɛn /

interjection

1. it is so; so be it (used after a prayer, creed, or other formal statement to express solemn ratification or agreement).

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adverb

1. verily; truly.

noun

• amens
  plural

1. an utterance of the interjection “amen.”

2. a musical setting for such an utterance.

3. an expression of concurrence or assent.

   The committee gave its amen to the proposal.

Amen ² American  

[ah-muhn] / ˈɑ mən /

Or Amon

noun

Egyptian Mythology.

1. a primeval deity worshiped especially at Thebes, the personification of air or breath represented as either a ram or a goose (later identified with Amen-Ra).

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amen ¹ British  

/ ˌeɪˈmɛn, ˌɑːˈmɛn /

interjection

1. so be it!: a term used at the end of a prayer or religious statement

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noun

1. the use of the word amen, as at the end of a prayer

2. to express strong approval of or support for (an assertion, hope, etc)

Amen ² British  

/ ˈɑːmən /

noun

1. Egyptian myth a local Theban god, having a ram's head and symbolizing life and fertility, identified by the Egyptians with the national deity Amen-Ra

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• amens
  plural

Etymology

Origin of amen

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English, from Late Latin, from Greek amḗn, from Hebrew āmēn “certainly”; akin to Arabic ʼāmana, Hebrew he'ĕmîn “to believe”

Example Sentences

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amen Amen amens

Ballas contined: "Gratitude to Jane because I panicked. I really thought that was it, the end, amen."

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025

“Ameen,” the players quietly said, using the Arabic word for amen.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

The people clapped and gave shouts of amen.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Or the way Hailstork really has the chorus lean into those humming M’s of “come home” like the hinge of an amen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

Prompted by a nod from his mother, Leon muttered a short suspended grace—For what we are about to receive—to which the scrape of chairs was the amen.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

“I’ve been going through treatment, and everything is going great so far, and I expect it to continue. Amen, amen, amen,” she said on Tuesday’s episode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

He said the boy "did not lay a finger on Amen Teklay" and that being at the scene did not make him guilty.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Amen, who was originally from Eritrea, lived with his father in Glasgow and attended St Thomas Aquinas secondary school in Jordanhill.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Some of the group went home but the prosecution argued that the 16-year-old wanted to look for Amen.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

He told the teams he’d see them inside, and he and his buddy, Sergeant Thomas Amen, entered the air lock.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

This family comedy, with its cheek and secrets and eulogies and amens, wants to offer audiences living in bad times an old-fashioned good one.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2021

But with every phrase I spoke that day in that small upper-room church, the amens grew louder and louder.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2021

Rice and His Sanctified Congregation, the amens and “Oh yeahs!” from the congregation are so boisterous they threaten to roll right over the preacher.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2020

The worshipers called out amens and shouted for him to “preach!”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2019

We can barely get our amens out before Shirley says, “Momma, I had a funny dream last night, but I can’t remember it. Does that ever happen to you?”

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson