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CHANT
chant
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)
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.
(transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
Noun
chant (plural chants)
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
(music) 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.
Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
Anagrams
• natch
Source: Wiktionary
Chant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Chanting.] Etym: [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]
1. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music. Spenser.
2. To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters. Bramhall.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
Chant, v. i.
1. To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound of the viol." Amos vi. 5.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.
Chant, n.Etym: [F. chant, fr. L. cantus singing, song, fr. canere to sing. See Chant, v. t.]
1. Song; melody.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: 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.
3. A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
4. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza.
– each of these six parts ending with a common refrain.
– Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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