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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (archaic) chaunt
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantō, cantāre (“to sing”). Doublet of cant.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)
- To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto VII, stanza 3:
- the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind
- To sing or intone sacred text.
- To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
- The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
- 2009, Leo J. Daugherty III, The Marine Corps and the State Department, p 116 [1]
- On their way to Parliament Square, the demonstrators chanted slogans, sang the Hungarian national anthem, and waved banners and Hungarian flags (minus the hated Communist emblem).
- (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
Translations[edit]
sing monophonically without instruments
utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner
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Noun[edit]
chant (plural chants)
- Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
- (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.
- Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- His strange face, his strange chant.
- A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
Translations[edit]
type of singing
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Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
chant
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
- imperative of chanten
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chant m (plural chants)
Synonyms[edit]
- (song): chanson
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “chant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French chant.
Noun[edit]
chant m (plural chants or chants)
- 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
Descendants[edit]
- French: chant
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chant m (plural chants)
Synonyms[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chant m (oblique plural chanz or chantz, nominative singular chanz or chantz, nominative plural chant)
- song
- circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 104 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 1027:
- car sun chant signefie mort
- for his song signifies death
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Verb[edit]
chant
Welsh[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chant
- Aspirate mutation of cant.
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |
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