chant

§English

Wikipedia

§Alternative forms

• (archaic) chaunt

§Etymology

From Old French chanter, from Latin cantō (“to sing”)

§Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːnt/, /tʃant/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tʃænt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnt

§Verb

chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)

1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
   • Spenser

     The cheerful birds […] do chant sweet music.

2. To sing or intone sacred text.

§Translations

sing monophonically without instruments

• Bulgarian: напявам (napjavam)
• Dutch: chanten, zingen (nl)
• Finnish: messuta
• French: chanter (fr)
• Italian: salmodiare (it)
• Latin: cano
• Maori: oriori

• Nahuatl: tlatoa
• Portuguese: cantar (pt)
• Rapa Nui: rongorongo
• Russian: петь (ru) (petʹ)
• Spanish: (religious) salmodiar

§Noun

Wikipedia

chant (plural chants)

1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
2. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
   • Macaulay

     His strange face, his strange chant.

4. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

§Translations

type of singing

• Irish: cantaireacht f
• Maori: oriori, whakaoriori

• Russian: песнопение (ru) n (pesnopénije)

§Related terms

• enchant
• Gregorian chant
• incantation

§Anagrams

• natch

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§Dutch

§Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

§Verb

chant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
2. imperative of chanten

§Anagrams

• nacht

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§French

§Etymology

From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

§Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃/

§Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. song
2. The discipline of singing

§Synonyms

• (song): chanson

§Related terms

• chanter

§External links

• “chant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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§Middle French

§Noun

chant m (plural chants or chants)

1. song
   • 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:

     chant de Cycne est praesaige certain de sa mort prochaine

     the song of the swan is a certain prediction of its death

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§Norman

§Etymology

Borrowing from French chant.

§Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. (Jersey) song

§Synonyms

• chanson

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§Old French

§Etymology

Latin cantus

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

§Noun

chant m (oblique plural chanz or chantz, nominative singular chanz or chantz, nominative plural chant)

1. song

§Synonyms

• chançon

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§Romansch

§Verb

chant

1. first-person singular present indicative of chantar

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§Welsh

§Noun

chant

1. Cant with the aspirate mutation.

§Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cant	gant	nghant	chant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.