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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.