Recessional

What do we mean by recessional?

A hymn or piece of music that accompanies a ceremonial recession. noun

A recession from a church. noun

Of or relating to a recession. adjective

Pertaining to or connected with recession, or a receding movement, as that of the choir or congregation at the close of a service: as, a recessional hymn.

A hymn sung while the clergy and choir are leaving a church at the end of a service of public worship. noun

A hymn or other piece of music sung or played while a church congregation is leaving a service, or a choir is returning to the cloak room; a recessional hymn. noun

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. adjective

A hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room; a recessional. adjective

Music played during a church recession. noun

The withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service noun

Of or relating to receding adjective

A hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw noun

Music played during a church recession.

Words that are spelled similarly to recessional:
recessional, precessional, secessional, recession, processional, recessionary, accessional, recessions, reversional.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word recessional:
redshift, moraine, kipling, hymn, hubble, velocity, glacial, lawn, burden, galaxy, glacier, poem, agriculture, universe, wedding, expansion, distance, piece, lake, memorial, forest, ice, form.

Words that rhyme with recessional:
precessional.

Adjectives that are often used to describe recessional:
long, slow, famous, historical, dull, solemn, own, stately, fine, great, continuous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective recessional:
moraines, moraine, velocity, hymn, velocities, lines, speed, music, motion, movement, space, speeds, phase, march, line, tendencies, song, stage, deposits, stages, agriculture, effect, note, phases, ridges, shorelines, ceremony, motives, gold, cultivation, shift, stretches, features, motions, unemployment, limb, positions, thundering, trend, halts, composition, tendency, surprises, style, plane, episode, movements, belts, planes, hymns, beach, periods, borders, depth, rapture, window, outwash, beaches.

Words that sound like recessional:
recessional, processional, recession, recessions, accessional, original, rational, rotational, reginal, decisional, racional, reactional, redemptional, recission, obsessional, professional, residual, transitional, rescission, recision, recessionary, rescissions, possessional, reception, rationale, regional, retinal, relational, receptions, frictional, concessional, creational, perceptional, successional, originel, discussional, rosh hashanah, incisional, radiational.