paternoster
/pey-ter-nos-ter, pah‐, pat-er‐/US // ˈpeɪ tərˈnɒs tər, ˈpɑ‐, ˈpæt ər‐ //UK // (ˌpætəˈnɒstə) //
父老乡亲,教父,父老乡亲们,父辈
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n.名词 noun
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- : Also Pater Noster. the Lord's Prayer, especially in the Latin form.
- : a recitation of this prayer as an act of worship.
- : one of certain beads in a rosary, regularly every 11th bead, differing in size or material from the rest and indicating that the Lord's Prayer is to be said.
- : any fixed recital of words used as a prayer or magical charm.
- : a doorless, continuously moving elevator for passengers or goods, having numerous platforms or compartments that rise or descend on a moving chain.
- : Architecture. pearl molding.
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Examples
Some said "Our Father" and some "Paternoster," and they all meant the same.
The exhortation was usually followed by a loud saying of a Paternoster and a "Hail Mary" by all present.
The lad knelt down, and devoutly said his Paternoster, and began to play upon his pipe so that it was heard over hill and dale.
“It is as though the bearer had run for a paternoster-while, and then leaped the river,” Dick observed.
They gave me the address of a magazine in your Rue Paternoster, and at that place I was this morning informed where to find you.
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