1. antiphon - Noun
2. Antiphon - Proper noun
A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.
A verse said before and after the psalms.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAt houses and churches, young girls dressed in white strew flowers, while singing the day's antiphon Hosanna Filio David using the vernacular and traditional tunes. Source: Internet
The relatively early Missa Ave maris stella, which probably dates from his years in the Sistine Chapel choir, paraphrases the Marian antiphon of the same name ; it is also one of his shortest masses. Source: Internet
The climax of the Enkōmia comes during the third stásis, with the antiphon "Ō glyký mou Éar", a lamentation of the Virgin for her dead Child ("O, my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where has your beauty gone?"). Source: Internet