gift of tongues


noun

Origin of gift of tongues

First recorded in 1550–60

Words nearby gift of tongues

British Dictionary definitions for gift of tongues

gift of tongues

noun

an utterance, partly or wholly unintelligible, believed by some to be produced under the influence of ecstatic religious emotion and conceived to be a manifestation of the Holy Ghost: practised in certain Christian churches, usually called Pentecostal Also called: glossolalia