chant
English
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Alternative forms
- (archaic) chaunt
Etymology
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From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantō, cantāre (“to sing”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
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.
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- The cheerful birds […] do chant sweet music.
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- 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
sing monophonically without instruments
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Noun
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.
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- His strange face, his strange chant.
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- A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
Translations
type of singing
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
chant
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of chanten
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.
Pronunciation
Noun
chant m (plural chants)
Synonyms
- (song): chanson
Related terms
Further reading
- “chant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French chant.
Noun
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
- French: chant
Norman
Etymology
Noun
chant m (plural chants)
Synonyms
Old French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
chant oblique singular, 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
Synonyms
Descendants
Romansch
Verb
chant
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
chant
- Aspirate mutation of cant.
Mutation
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