What does chant mean?
Definitions for chant
tʃænt, tʃɑntchant
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Princeton's WordNet
chant(verb)
a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
chant, intone, intonate, cantillate(verb)
recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
"The rabbi chanted a prayer"
tone, chant, intone(verb)
utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
"The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
Wiktionary
chant(Noun)
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
chant(Verb)
To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
Origin: From chanter, from canto
Webster Dictionary
Chant(verb)
to utter with a melodious voice; to sing
Chant(verb)
to celebrate in song
Chant(verb)
to sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant
Chant(verb)
to make melody with the voice; to sing
Chant(verb)
to sing, as in reciting a chant
Chant(verb)
song; melody
Chant(verb)
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
Chant(verb)
a psalm, etc., arranged for chanting
Chant(verb)
twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone
Origin: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]
Freebase
Chant
Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the later Middle Ages some religious chant evolved into song.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Chant
chant, v.t. to sing: to celebrate in song: to recite in a singing manner: to sell horses fraudulently.—n. song: melody: a kind of sacred music, in which prose is sung.—ns. Chant′er, Chant′or, a singer: a precentor: in a bagpipe, the pipe with finger-holes, on which the melody is played: one who cries up horses; Chant′ress; Chant′ry, an endowment, or chapel, for the chanting of masses; Chant′y, a sailor's song, usually with a drawling refrain, sung in concert while raising the anchor, &c. [Fr. chanter—L. cantāre, canĕre, to sing.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chant in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of chant in a Sentence
It was quite a chant.
I got things to do... I don't have time to chant' Death to America,'.
There are certain sayings that ring in your head long enough to become a chant!
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
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