magnificat

1. 1.

   (Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum')

   Broadercanticle

   Luke

Other forms of magnificat

plural

magnificats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about magnificat

What does magnificat mean?

magnificat means "(Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum')".

How many syllables are in magnificat?

magnificat has 4 syllables: mag-ni-fi-cat. The stress falls on "ni".

Is magnificat a common word?

magnificat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.