From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.
Meanings
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
(qualifier:Anglicanism) A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. ▸ 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.
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:
A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
es melopea (type of singing) · mi whakaoriori (type of singing) · ga cantaireacht (type of singing) · tr şarkı (type of singing) · es canturria (type of singing) · mi oriori (type of singing) · es canto (type of singing) · es canturía (type of singing) · es salmodia (type of singing) · ar أَهَازِيج (type of singing) · ga andord (type of singing) · es cántico (type of singing) · it salmodia (type of singing) · es melopeya (type of singing) · hi जाप (type of singing) · ka საგალობელი (type of singing) · tr ilahi (type of singing) · tr terennüm (type of singing) · ar أُهْزُوجَة (type of singing) · ru песнопе́ние (type of singing)
From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.
Meanings
To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
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:
To sing or intone sacred text.
To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
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:
(archaic, transitive) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
ru петь (sing monophonically without instruments) · ro scanda (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · ota چاغرمق (sing monophonically without instruments) · bg напявам (sing monophonically without instruments) · tr şarkı söylemek (sing monophonically without instruments) · fr chanter (sing monophonically without instruments) · es cantusar (sing monophonically without instruments) · es cantusear (sing monophonically without instruments) · ka გალობს (sing monophonically without instruments) · gl cantar (sing monophonically without instruments) · tr terennüm etmek (sing monophonically without instruments) · eo skandi (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · ka გალობა (sing monophonically without instruments) · ga bí ag cantaireacht (sing monophonically without instruments) · nl zingen (sing monophonically without instruments) · nl chanten (sing monophonically without instruments) · pl skandować (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · es corear (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · es canturriar (sing monophonically without instruments) · da messe (sing monophonically without instruments) · pt cantar (sing monophonically without instruments) · es salmodiar (sing monophonically without instruments) · it salmodiare (sing monophonically without instruments) · hi मंत्रणा (sing monophonically without instruments) · tr ilahi okumak (sing monophonically without instruments) · eo ĉanti (sing monophonically without instruments) · rap rongorongo (sing monophonically without instruments) · es canturrear (sing monophonically without instruments) · uk скандува́ти (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · ru скандировать (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · de skandieren (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · kk ән айту (sing monophonically without instruments) · la cano (sing monophonically without instruments) · ga can (sing monophonically without instruments) · fi messuta (sing monophonically without instruments) · ota اوقومق (sing monophonically without instruments) · de im Sprechchor rufen (utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner) · nah tlatoa (sing monophonically without instruments) · mi oriori (sing monophonically without instruments) · zro uranu (sing monophonically without instruments)