chant
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English
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Alternative forms
- (archaic) chaunt
Etymology
From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.
Pronunciation
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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, 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, page 116:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
sing monophonically without instruments
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utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner
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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.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- His strange face, his strange chant.
- A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
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Translations
type of singing
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Dutch
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Verb
chant
- inflection of chanten:
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chant, from Latin cantus.
Pronunciation
Noun
chant m (plural chants)
- song
- Synonym: chanson
- 2015, Fréro Delavega, Le chant des sirènes:
- Quand les souvenirs s’emmêlent, les larmes me viennent, et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- the discipline of singing
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Descendants
- → Turkish: şan
Further reading
- “chant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French chant.
Pronunciation
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)
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Descendants
Romansch
Verb
chant
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
chant
- Aspirate mutation of cant.
Mutation
| 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. | |||