Definition of "hallelujah"
interjection An exclamation used in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God . quotations examples
Quotations AND after theſe things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen , ſaying , Alleluia : ſaluation , and glorie , and honour , and power vnto the Lord our God :
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Revelation 19:1, column 2
A shout of “Hallelujah ”. quotations examples
Quotations So ſung they , and the Empyrean rung , / With Halleluiahs : Thus was Sabbath kept .
1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 633–634
(in the plural) General praise . quotations examples
Quotations Who so stolid and selfish , that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation ’s jubilee , when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs ?
1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], part II (Life as a Freeman), page 441
verb third-person singular simple present hallelujahs , present participle hallelujahing , simple past and past participle hallelujahed