amen
n. countablen. a statement of strong agreement. You use it when you think someone has said something very true or important.
n. an expression of emphatic agreement or approval. Informal in this sense; derived from the liturgical closing to a prayer.
I'll give a loud amen to that idea.
When she suggested that the office needed better coffee, she received a chorus of amens from her colleagues.
The speaker's call for more transparent leadership met with a resounding amen from the back of the hall, signaling that the audience shared his frustrations.
Multiple origins, including a respelling of German Ammann or a variant of Amin from Arabic أَمِين (ʔamīn).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Often used in the phrase 'to give an amen' or 'a loud amen'.
Last updated May 2, 2026