chant
nounEtymology From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.
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Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A harmonized melody used in Anglican chant, usually split into two two-bar phrases, to which the words of a psalm are sung by a choir; typically, each musical phrase corresponds to the text of half of a verse.
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Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
- His strange face, his strange chant.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
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A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
- Derived terms
- Ambrosian chant, Anglican chant, chantlike, chant royal, chant talk, chant therapy, English chant, fanchant, Jody chant, Milanese chant, plainchant, terrace chant
- Related terms
- cant, cantor, cantorate, cantrix, chant de cour, chanter, enchant, Gregorian chant, incantation, Ramayana monkey chant