"litany" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlɪtəni/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-litany.wav Forms: litanies [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French letanie, from Latin litania, from Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”), from λιτή (litḗ, “prayer, entreaty”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{uder|en|fro|letanie}} Old French letanie, {{der|en|la|litania}} Latin litania, {{uder|en|grc|λιτανεία||prayer}} Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} litany (plural litanies)
  1. A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation. Synonyms: call and response Translations (ritual liturgical prayer): литания (litanija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), lletania [feminine] (Catalan), litanie [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), litania (Finnish), litanie [feminine] (French), ლიტანია (liṭania) (Georgian), Litanei [feminine] (German), λιτανεία (litaneía) [feminine] (Greek), litannie [feminine] (Norman), ლიტანია (liṭania) (Old Georgian), litania [feminine] (Polish), litania [feminine] (Portuguese), ladainha [feminine] (Portuguese), лита́ния (litánija) [feminine] (Russian), ектенья́ (jektenʹjá) [feminine] (Russian), leetany (Scots), лита̀нија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), litànija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), letanía (Spanish), litania [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. (figurative) A prolonged or tedious list. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: laundry list Translations (prolonged or tedious list): lletania [feminine] (Catalan), 贅述 (Chinese Cantonese), 赘述 (zeoi⁶ seot⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), litanie [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), litanio (Esperanto), litanie [feminine] (French), λιτανεία (litaneía) [feminine] (Greek), litania [feminine] (Polish), litania [feminine] (Portuguese), ladainha [feminine] (Portuguese), лита́ния (litánija) [feminine] (Russian), лита̀нија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), litànija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), letanía [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-litany-en-noun-en:long_and_often_tedious_list Disambiguation of 'prolonged or tedious list': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Lesser Litany, litany desk, litany stool

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1988, Prepared Foods, volume 157, numbers 11-13, page 9:",
          "text": "The litany of packaging innovations introduced to or popularized in the U.S. food market over the last generation seems endless: flexible aseptic packaging, barrier plastics, squeezables, lightweight glass, the retort pouch, […]",
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          "ref": "2016 January 30, “America deserves more from presidential hopefuls”, in The National, retrieved 2016-01-31:",
          "text": "There are, to be sure, some differences in how the candidates propose addressing this litany of concerns.",
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          "ref": "2009 July 22, Josie Litton, Come Back to Me: A Novel (Viking & Saxon), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102:",
          "text": "To that end he had sent his men among the common folk of the town, from whom came a litany of tales that led Hawk to a stunningly wrong conclusion. \"It seems I may not be good enough at listening,\" he said regretfully.",
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          "ref": "2022 December 15, David A Banks, “Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption. The FTX scandal shows it’s got worse”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "[Sam Bankman-Fried] is charged with a litany of fraud and campaign finance law violations, in what US prosecutors are calling “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”.",
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "litania"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin litania",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "λιτανεία",
        "4": "",
        "5": "prayer"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English, from Old French letanie, from Latin litania, from Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”), from λιτή (litḗ, “prayer, entreaty”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "litanies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "litany (plural litanies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ritual",
          "ritual"
        ],
        [
          "liturgical",
          "liturgical"
        ],
        [
          "prayer",
          "prayer"
        ],
        [
          "recite",
          "recite"
        ],
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ],
        [
          "alternate",
          "alternate"
        ],
        [
          "response",
          "response"
        ],
        [
          "congregation",
          "congregation"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:call and response type of prayer"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "call and response"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Prepared Foods, volume 157, numbers 11-13, page 9:",
          "text": "The litany of packaging innovations introduced to or popularized in the U.S. food market over the last generation seems endless: flexible aseptic packaging, barrier plastics, squeezables, lightweight glass, the retort pouch, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 January 30, “America deserves more from presidential hopefuls”, in The National, retrieved 2016-01-31:",
          "text": "There are, to be sure, some differences in how the candidates propose addressing this litany of concerns.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 July 22, Josie Litton, Come Back to Me: A Novel (Viking & Saxon), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102:",
          "text": "To that end he had sent his men among the common folk of the town, from whom came a litany of tales that led Hawk to a stunningly wrong conclusion. \"It seems I may not be good enough at listening,\" he said regretfully.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 15, David A Banks, “Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption. The FTX scandal shows it’s got worse”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "[Sam Bankman-Fried] is charged with a litany of fraud and campaign finance law violations, in what US prosecutors are calling “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prolonged or tedious list."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prolonged",
          "prolonged"
        ],
        [
          "tedious",
          "tedious"
        ],
        [
          "list",
          "list"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A prolonged or tedious list."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:long and often tedious list"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "laundry list"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪtəni/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "litanija",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "литания"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lletania"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "litanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "word": "litania"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "liṭania",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "word": "ლიტანია"
    },
    {
      "code": "oge",
      "lang": "Old Georgian",
      "roman": "liṭania",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "word": "ლიტანია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Litanei"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "litaneía",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λιτανεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litannie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litania"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litania"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ladainha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "litánija",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лита́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jektenʹjá",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ектенья́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "word": "leetany"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лита̀нија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litànija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "word": "letanía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ritual liturgical prayer",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "litania"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lletania"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "word": "贅述"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "zeoi⁶ seot⁶",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "word": "赘述"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "litanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "word": "litanio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "litaneía",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λιτανεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litania"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litania"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ladainha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "litánija",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лита́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лита̀нија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "litànija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "prolonged or tedious list",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "letanía"
    }
  ],
  "word": "litany"
}

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