What is the meaning of Chant?

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

To sing or intone sacred text.

To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.

  1. 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.

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.

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.

A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

inflection of chanten:

  1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
  2. imperative

first/second/third-person singular present indicative

imperative

song

the discipline of singing

song

song

first-person singular present indicative of chantar

song

Aspirate mutation of cant.

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