chant

• (archaic) chaunt

Borrowed from Old French chanter, from Latin cantō, cantāre (“to sing”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːnt/, /tʃænt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tʃænt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnt

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.
   • Spenser

     The cheerful birds […] do chant sweet 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, p 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.

chant (plural chants)

1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
2. (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.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
   • Macaulay

     His strange face, his strange chant.

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

• enchant
• Gregorian chant
• incantation

• natch

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chant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
2. imperative of chanten

• nacht

From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃/

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chant m (plural chants)

1. song
2. The discipline of singing

• (song): chanson

• chanter

• “chant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French chant.

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

• French: chant

Borrowed from French chant.

chant m (plural chants)

1. (Jersey) song

• chanson

From Latin cantus.

• IPA^(key): /tʃãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

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

1. song
   • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 104 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 1027:

     car sun chant signefie mort

     for his song signifies death

• chançon

• Middle French: chant
  • French: chant

chant

1. first-person singular present indicative of chantar

• IPA^(key): /χant/

chant

1. Aspirate mutation of cant.