Definitions for chant
tʃænt, tʃɑntchant

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. chant(verb)

   a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone

2. chant, intone, intonate, cantillate(verb)

   recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

   "The rabbi chanted a prayer"

3. tone, chant, intone(verb)

   utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

   "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. chant(Noun)

   Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

   Etymology: From chanter, from canto

2. chant(Verb)

   To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.

   Etymology: From chanter, from canto

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1. Chant

   A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main 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 (forming one of the roots of later Western music).

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Chant(verb)

   to utter with a melodious voice; to sing

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

2. Chant(verb)

   to celebrate in song

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

3. Chant(verb)

   to sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

4. Chant(verb)

   to make melody with the voice; to sing

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

5. Chant(verb)

   to sing, as in reciting a chant

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

6. Chant(verb)

   song; melody

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

7. 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

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

8. Chant(verb)

   a psalm, etc., arranged for chanting

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

9. Chant(verb)

   twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone

   Etymology: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

Freebase(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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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1. natch

How to pronounce chant?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chant in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of chant in a Sentence

1. Parker Rice:

   I'm also upset and embarrassed that I failed to stand up as a leader and stop this chant. I now have a clear understanding of what lives behind the words, from this point forward, I will be the leader that I should have been on that bus and stand up against racism in any form.

2. Joseph Uscinski:

   He is clearly endorsing QAnon in the video. Whether he believes the conspiracy theory is another matter, the' Where General Flynn and I both go one, General Flynn and I both go all' chant makes it clear. It is a QAnon saying. Further, the QAnon folks have all been taking this' pledge' lately online and posting it.

3. Ashima:

   There are certain sayings that ring in your head long enough to become a chant!

4. Yuseff Hamm:

   When you have a chant going on like that, and no one addresses it, and then a week later, these killings come to fruition, I’m shaken, the rhetoric that’s going around, left unchecked, is very dangerous, and it invites people to do crazy nonsense.

5. Jared Scarborough:

   I was shocked they were just doing it openly on the bus, like they were proud of it, from the chant, you could tell they had done it before. It wasn't a first-time thing. And it was everybody. And the fist-pumping.

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