Usually means: Simple, unaccompanied, monophonic liturgical chant.
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  1. plainsong: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plainsong: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plainsong: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plainsong: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plainsong: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plainsong, plainsong: Wordnik
  7. plainsong: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plainsong: Wiktionary
  9. plainsong: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plainsong: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plainsong: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. plainsong: Dictionary.com
  13. Plainsong (band), Plainsong (disambiguation), Plainsong (novel), Plainsong: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. plainsong: Rhymezone
  15. plainsong: Free Dictionary
  16. plainsong: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. plainsong: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. plainsong: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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noun:  (music) A form of monophonic chant in unison using the Gregorian scale, sung in various Christian churches.
noun:  (music) A cantus firmus or theme chosen for contrapuntal treatment; so called because often an actual fragment of plain-song.
noun:  (music) The simple notes of an air, without ornament or variation.
noun:  (by extension) A plain unvarnished statement, without exaggeration.

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