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Meanings

  1. Lord's Prayer; Our Father; paternoster (prayer that Jesus taught his disciples)

  2. archaican approximate measure of time: as long as it takes to say the Our Father at an intermediate tempo, i.e. about half a minute

Examples

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Tom sagte das Vaterunser auf.Tom recited the Lord's Prayer.
Man hält Joachim für religiös, dabei kann er kaum das Vaterunser.Joaquim is said to be religious, but he hardly knows the Lord's prayer.
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Ich war nie religiös, aber das Vaterunser auf Latein zu hören macht mich schaudern.I've never been religious, but hearing the Lord's Prayer in Latin makes me shudder.

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