anthem
noun
[ ˈanθəm ]
• a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause.
• "the song became the anthem for hippy activists"
• a musical setting of a religious text to be sung by a choir during a church service, especially in Anglican or Protestant Churches.
Origin:
Old English antefn, antifne (denoting a composition sung antiphonally), from late Latin antiphona (see antiphon). The spelling with th, which began in the 16th century, was on the pattern of similar words such as Antony, Anthony .
