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chant

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑːnt/, /t͡ʃænt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /t͡ʃænt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːnt, -ænt

Verb

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chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)

  1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
  2. To sing or intone sacred text.
  3. 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).
  4. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

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Noun

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chant (plural chants)

  1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
  2. (music) A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
    1. (music, Anglicanism) 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.
  3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
  4. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

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chant

  1. inflection of chanten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

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chant m (plural chants)

  1. 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)
  2. the discipline of singing

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  • → Turkish: şan

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French chant.

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Noun

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chant m (plural chants or chants)

  1. 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

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Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French chant.

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chant m (plural chants)

  1. (Jersey) song

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Old French

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From Latin cantus.

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chant oblique singular, m (oblique plural chanz or chantz, nominative singular chanz or chantz, nominative plural chant)

  1. song
    • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 104, line 1027:
      car sun chant signefie mort
      for his song signifies death

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chant

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chantar

Welsh

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chant

  1. Aspirate mutation of cant.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
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.
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