paternoster

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Pater=noster

CIDE DICTIONARY

paternoster, n. [L., Our Father.].

•  The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.  [1913 Webster]
•  A beadlike ornament in moldings.  [1913 Webster]
•  A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers.  [1913 Webster]
•  An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paternoster, n.
1 a the Lord's Prayer, esp. in Latin. b a rosary bead indicating that this is to be said.
2 a lift consisting of a series of linked doorless compartments moving continuously on a circular belt.

Etymology

OE f. L pater noster our father

THESAURUS

paternoster

Agnus Dei, Alleluia, Anamnesis, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Blessing, Canon, Collect, Communion, Consecration, Credo, Dismissal, Epistle, Fraction, Gloria, Gospel, Gradual, Hail Mary, Introit, Kyrie, Kyrie Eleison, Last Gospel, Lavabo, Offertory, Pax, Post-Communion, Preface, Sanctus, Secreta, Tersanctus, Tract, aid prayer, appeal, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, chaplet, collect, communion, contemplation, devotions, entreaty, grace, impetration, imploration, intercession, invocation, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, prayer, prayer wheel, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving

ROGET THESAURUS

paternoster

Worship

N worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation, kneeling, genuflection, prostration, prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing, petition, collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster, beadroll, latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils, revival, cult, anxious meeting, camp meeting, ebenezer, virginal, thanksgiving, giving thanks, returning thanks, grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna, hallelujah, allelujah, Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis, paean, benschen, Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion, psalm, psalmody, hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet, antiphon, antiphony, oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation, burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering, offertory, discipline, self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial, fasting, divine service, office, duty, exercises, morning prayer, mass, matins, evensong, vespers, undernsong, tierce, holyday, worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant, worshipping, devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn, fervid, Int, hallelujah, allelujah!, hosanna!, glory be to God!, O Lord!, pray God that!, God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid!, sursum corda, making their lives a prayer, ora et labora, prayers ardent open heaven.