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"book"
10 senses of book
Sense 1
book -- (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics")
-> publication -- (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)
=> reissue, reprint, reprinting -- (a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale)
=> new edition -- (a publication (such as a book) that has been modified or updated and offered again for sale)
=> book -- (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics")
=> volume -- (a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications; "the third volume was missing"; "he asked for the 1989 volume of the Annual Review")
=> read -- (something that is read; "the article was a very good read")
=> impression, printing -- (all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies")
=> collection, compendium -- (a publication containing a variety of works)
=> periodical -- (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)
=> magazine, mag -- (a periodic paperback publication; "it takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money")
=> tip sheet -- (a publication containing the latest information or tips or predictions for a particular business or stock market information or horse racing results, etc.)
=> reference, source -- (a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation")
=> republication -- (something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work))
Sense 2
book, volume -- (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop")
-> product, production -- (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production")
=> book, volume -- (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop")
=> book -- (a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps")
=> by-product, byproduct, spin-off -- (a product made during the manufacture of something else)
=> deliverable -- (something that can be provided as the product of development; "under this contract the deliverables include both software and hardware")
=> end product, output -- (final product; the things produced)
=> inspiration, brainchild -- (a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality")
=> job -- (an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right")
=> magazine -- (product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object; "tripped over a pile of magazines")
=> newspaper, paper -- (a newspaper as a physical object; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper")
=> output, outturn, turnout -- (what is produced in a given time period)
=> turnery -- (products made on a lathe)
=> work, piece of work -- (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time")
=> yield, fruit -- (an amount of a product)
Sense 3
ledger, leger, account book, book of account, book -- (a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books")
-> record -- (a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase")
=> balance sheet -- (a record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against those assets)
=> expense record -- (a written record of money spent)
=> ledger, leger, account book, book of account, book -- (a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books")
=> payslip -- (a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out)
=> register -- (a book in which names and transactions are listed)
=> bankbook, passbook -- (a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks)
=> checkbook, chequebook -- (a book issued to holders of checking accounts)
Sense 4
book -- (a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps")
-> product, production -- (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production")
=> book, volume -- (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop")
=> book -- (a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps")
=> by-product, byproduct, spin-off -- (a product made during the manufacture of something else)
=> deliverable -- (something that can be provided as the product of development; "under this contract the deliverables include both software and hardware")
=> end product, output -- (final product; the things produced)
=> inspiration, brainchild -- (a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality")
=> job -- (an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right")
=> magazine -- (product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object; "tripped over a pile of magazines")
=> newspaper, paper -- (a newspaper as a physical object; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper")
=> output, outturn, turnout -- (what is produced in a given time period)
=> turnery -- (products made on a lathe)
=> work, piece of work -- (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time")
=> yield, fruit -- (an amount of a product)
Sense 5
record, record book, book -- (a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks")
-> fact -- (a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts")
=> record, record book, book -- (a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks")
=> basics, rudiments -- (a statement of fundamental facts or principles)
=> index, index number, indicant, indicator -- (a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time)
Sense 6
book -- (a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah")
-> section, subdivision -- (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section")
=> lead, lead-in -- (the introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter")
=> canto -- (a major division of a long poem)
=> sports section -- (the section of a newspaper that reports on sports)
=> article, clause -- (a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will))
=> book -- (a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah")
=> chapter -- (a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep")
=> episode -- (a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series)
=> spot -- (a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance; "they changed his spot on the program")
=> spot -- (a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising)
=> insert -- (a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication)
=> introduction -- (the first section of a communication)
=> narration -- ((rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth)
=> conclusion, end, close, closing, ending -- (the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say...")
=> passage -- (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)
=> mezuzah, mezuza -- (religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law)
=> sura -- (one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran; "the Quran is divided in 114 suras")
=> obbligato, obligato -- (a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission)
=> recapitulation -- (a section of a musical composition or movement in which themes introduced earlier are repeated)
Sense 7
script, book, playscript -- (a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance)
-> dramatic composition, dramatic work -- (a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.)
=> play, drama, dramatic play -- (a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway")
=> act -- (a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet)
=> scene -- (a subdivision of an act of a play; "the first act has three scenes")
=> script, book, playscript -- (a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance)
Sense 8
book, rule book -- (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here")
-> collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage -- (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
=> procession -- (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden")
=> pharmacopoeia -- (a collection or stock of drugs)
=> string -- (a collection of objects threaded on a single strand)
=> wardrobe -- (collection of clothing belonging to one person)
=> wardrobe -- (collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company)
=> weaponry, arms, implements of war, weapons system, munition -- (weapons considered collectively)
=> population, universe -- ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population")
=> armamentarium -- (the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine)
=> art collection -- (a collection of art works)
=> backlog -- (an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services))
=> battery -- (a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests")
=> block -- (a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock")
=> book, rule book -- (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here")
=> bottle collection -- (a collection of bottles; "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window")
=> bunch, lot, caboodle -- (any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle")
=> coin collection -- (a collection of coins)
=> collage -- (any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories")
=> content -- (everything that is included in a collection; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content")
=> ensemble, tout ensemble -- (an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole)
=> corpus -- (a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus")
=> crop -- (a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas")
=> tenantry -- (tenants of an estate considered as a group)
=> findings -- (a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes)
=> pack -- (a complete collection of similar things)
=> hand, deal -- (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand")
=> long suit -- (in a hand, the suit having the most cards)
=> stamp collection -- (a collection of stamps)
=> statuary -- (statues collectively)
=> sum, summation, sum total -- (the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered")
=> agglomeration -- (a jumbled collection or mass)
=> gimmickry -- (a collection of gimmicks)
=> nuclear club -- (the nations possessing nuclear weapons)
=> pile, heap, mound, cumulus -- (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)
=> mass -- (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))
=> combination -- (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)
=> congregation -- (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over")
=> hit parade -- (a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind)
=> Judaica -- (historical and literary materials relating to Judaism)
=> kludge -- (a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together))
=> library, program library, subroutine library -- ((computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use)
=> library -- (a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing)
=> mythology -- (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)
=> Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library -- (a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of first-hand knowledge of Gnosticism)
=> biota, biology -- (all the plant and animal life of a particular region)
=> fauna -- (all the animal life in a particular region)
=> petting zoo -- (a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed)
=> set -- (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth")
=> Victoriana -- (collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era)
=> class, category, family -- (a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents")
=> job lot -- (a miscellaneous collection of things sold together)
=> package, bundle, packet, parcel -- (a collection of things wrapped or boxed together)
=> defense, defence, defense team, defense lawyers -- (the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; "the defense called for a mistrial")
=> prosecution -- (the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant)
=> planting -- (a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner")
=> signage -- (signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters); "there will be signage displayed at each post")
=> generally accepted accounting practices, GAAP -- (a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures)
=> pantheon -- (all the gods of a religion)
=> Free World -- (anti-Communist countries collectively)
=> Third World -- (underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively)
=> Europe -- (the nations of the European continent collectively; "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II")
=> Asia -- (the nations of the Asian continent collectively)
=> North America -- (the nations of the North American continent collectively)
=> Central America -- (the nations of Central America collectively)
=> South America -- (the nations of the South American continent collectively; "South America is an important market for goods from the United States")
=> Oort cloud -- ((astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun)
=> galaxy -- (a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people))
=> galaxy, extragalactic nebula -- ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'")
=> fleet -- (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)
=> fleet -- (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)
=> fleet -- (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)
=> repertoire -- (a collection of works that an artist or company can perform)
=> repertory, repertoire -- (the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters")
=> assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley -- (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions")
=> batch, clutch -- (a collection of things or persons to be handled together)
=> batch -- (all the loaves of bread baked at the same time)
=> rogue's gallery -- (a collection of pictures of criminals)
=> exhibition, exposition, expo -- (a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display)
=> convoy -- (a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships)
=> traffic -- (the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time)
=> aviation, air power -- (the aggregation of a country's military aircraft)
=> vegetation, flora -- (all the plant life in a particular region)
=> law, jurisprudence -- (the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order")
=> menagerie -- (a collection of live animals for study or display)
=> data, information -- (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data")
=> ana -- (a collection of anecdotes about a person or place)
=> mail, post -- (any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post")
=> treasure -- (a collection of precious things; "the trunk held all her meager treasures")
=> treasure trove -- (any collection of valuables that is discovered; "her book was a treasure trove of new ideas"; "mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques")
=> troponymy, troponomy -- (the place name of a region or a language)
=> smithereens -- (a collection of small fragments considered as a whole; "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smitereens")
=> Wise Men, Magi -- ((New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them)
=> French West Indies -- (the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France)
Sense 9
Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an, Book -- (the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina)
-> sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text -- (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
=> scripture, sacred scripture -- (any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group)
=> Adi Granth, Granth, Granth Sahib -- (the principal sacred text of Sikhism contains hymns and poetry as well as the teachings of the first five gurus)
=> Avesta, Zend-Avesta -- (a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries)
=> Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavadgita, Gita -- ((Hinduism) the sacred `song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic); contains a discussion between Krishna and the Indian hero Arjuna on human nature and the purpose of life)
=> Mahabharata, Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum -- ((Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families)
=> Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word -- (the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen")
=> Paralipomenon -- ((Old Testament) an obsolete name for the Old Testament books of Chronicles which were regarded as supplementary to Kings)
=> Torah, Pentateuch, Laws -- (the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit)
=> Torah -- (the whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition)
=> Tanakh, Tanach, Hebrew Scripture -- (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)
=> Prophets, Nebiim -- (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
=> Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings -- (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
=> Testament -- (either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible)
=> Gospel, Gospels, evangel -- (four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings)
=> Book of Mormon, The Book of Mormon -- (revealed to Joseph Smith in 1830 by an ancient prophet Mormon; supposedly a record of ancient peoples of America translated by Joseph Smith)
=> prayer -- (a fixed text used in praying)
=> service book -- (a book setting forth the forms of church service)
=> Apocrypha -- (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
=> sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature -- (any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain widom)
=> Pseudepigrapha -- (52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures; many are apocalyptic in nature)
=> Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an, Book -- (the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina)
=> Talmudic literature -- ((Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings)
=> Gemara -- (the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna)
=> Mishna, Mishnah -- (the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200)
=> Vedic literature, Veda -- ((from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionallly believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)
=> Upanishad -- (a later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions; "the Vedanta philosophy developed from the pantheistic views of the Upanishads")
=> mantra -- ((Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns)
=> psalm -- (any sacred song used to praise the Deity)
=> Psalm -- (one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament; said to have been written by David)
Sense 10
Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word -- (the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen")
-> sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text -- (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
=> scripture, sacred scripture -- (any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group)
=> Adi Granth, Granth, Granth Sahib -- (the principal sacred text of Sikhism contains hymns and poetry as well as the teachings of the first five gurus)
=> Avesta, Zend-Avesta -- (a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries)
=> Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavadgita, Gita -- ((Hinduism) the sacred `song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic); contains a discussion between Krishna and the Indian hero Arjuna on human nature and the purpose of life)
=> Mahabharata, Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum -- ((Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families)
=> Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word -- (the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen")
=> Paralipomenon -- ((Old Testament) an obsolete name for the Old Testament books of Chronicles which were regarded as supplementary to Kings)
=> Torah, Pentateuch, Laws -- (the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit)
=> Torah -- (the whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition)
=> Tanakh, Tanach, Hebrew Scripture -- (the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings)
=> Prophets, Nebiim -- (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
=> Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings -- (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
=> Testament -- (either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible)
=> Gospel, Gospels, evangel -- (four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings)
=> Book of Mormon, The Book of Mormon -- (revealed to Joseph Smith in 1830 by an ancient prophet Mormon; supposedly a record of ancient peoples of America translated by Joseph Smith)
=> prayer -- (a fixed text used in praying)
=> service book -- (a book setting forth the forms of church service)
=> Apocrypha -- (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
=> sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature -- (any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain widom)
=> Pseudepigrapha -- (52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures; many are apocalyptic in nature)
=> Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an, Book -- (the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina)
=> Talmudic literature -- ((Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings)
=> Gemara -- (the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna)
=> Mishna, Mishnah -- (the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200)
=> Vedic literature, Veda -- ((from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionallly believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)
=> Upanishad -- (a later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions; "the Vedanta philosophy developed from the pantheistic views of the Upanishads")
=> mantra -- ((Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns)
=> psalm -- (any sacred song used to praise the Deity)
=> Psalm -- (one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament; said to have been written by David)
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