Paean

1. n. See Paeon.
2. n. An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
3. n. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.