Chant Meaning
/t͡ʃɑːnt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
verbTo sing or intone sacred text.
Sentence Examples
Tom listened to Gregorian chant.
The crowd began to chant.
Gunter started to chant in some weird language.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Before the battle, the warriors would ____ a fierce cry to intimidate their enemies.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The crowd began to ____ the name of their favorite player tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:
"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)."
— 2009, Leo J. Daugherty III, The Marine Corps and the State Department, page 116:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
Before the battle, the warriors would ____ a fierce cry to intimidate their enemies.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The crowd began to ____ the name of their favorite player tonight.