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Webster 1913 Edition

Chant

Chant

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Chanted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Chanting
.]
[F.
chanter
, fr. L.
cantare
, intens. of
canere
to sing. Cf.
Cant
affected speaking, and see
Hen
.]
1.
To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
The cheerful birds . . . do
chant
sweet music.
Spenser.
2.
To celebrate in song.
The poets
chant
in the theaters.
Bramhall.
3.
(Mus.)
To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.

Chant

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To make melody with the voice; to sing.
“Chant to the sound of the viol.”
Amos vi. 5.
2.
(Mus.)
To sing, as in reciting a chant.
To chant horses
or
To chaunt horses
,
to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See
Chaunter
.
Thackeray.

Chant

,
Noun.
[F.
chant
, fr. L.
cantus
singing, song, fr.
canere
to sing. See
Chant
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
Song; melody.
2.
(Mus.)
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.
A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
4.
Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
[R.]
His strange face, his strange
chant
.
Macaulay.
Ambrosian chant
, See under
Ambrosian
.
Chant royal
[F.]
,
in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. – each of these six parts ending with a common refrain.
–
Gregorian chant
.
See under
Gregorian
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chant

CHANT

, v.t.
1.
To sing; to utter a melodious voice; that is, to cant or throw the voice in modulations.
The cheerful birds do chant sweet music.
2.
To celebrate in song; as, to chant the praises of Jehovah.
3.
To sing, as in church-service; to repeat words in a kind of canting voice, with modulations.

Definition 2024

chant

chant

English

Alternative forms

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

Noun

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

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Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

chant

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

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɑ̃/

Noun

chant m ‎(plural chants)

  1. song
  2. The discipline of singing

Synonyms

Related terms

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

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from French chant.

Noun

chant m ‎(plural chants)

  1. (Jersey) song

Synonyms

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
    • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 104 (of the Champion Classiques edition, ISBN 2-7453-0520-4), line 1027:
      car sun chant signefie mort
      for his song signifies death

Synonyms

Romansch

Verb

chant

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chantar

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χant/

Noun

chant

  1. Aspirate mutation of cant.

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.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tʃɑːnt/, /tʃant/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tʃænt/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːnt

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