- (often initial capital letter)matins. Also especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb)Ecclesiastical.
- the first of the seven canonical hours.
- the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
- the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- aubade.
- pertaining to the morning or to matins.
- of or relating to matins
