antiphon：释义

A devotional composition sung responsively as part of a liturgy.

A short liturgical text chanted or sung responsively preceding or following a psalm, psalm verse, or canticle. Such a text formerly used as a response but now rendered independently.

A response; a reply:"It would be truer .. to see [conservation] as an antiphon to the modernization of the 1950s and 1960s"(Raphael Samuel).