paean

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
paean /ˈpiːən/

▶noun a song of praise or triumph.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk paian ‘hymn of thanksgiving to Apollo’ (invoked by the name Paian, orig. the Homeric name for the physician of the gods).

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