Dictionary

chanter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈt͡ʃæntɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtʃɑːntə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

Meanings

1. One who chants or sings.
2. A priest who sings in a chantry.
3. The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
   • the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all. 1860s, anon, Lanigan's Ball (song)
4. The hedge sparrow.
5. (archaic) One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Forms

Deriveds

chantress · chantered · subchanter

Translations (24)

es caramillo (the pipe of a bagpipe) · enm chauntour (one who chants or sings) · pl kantor (a priest who sings in a chantry) · ga cantaire (one who chants or sings) · pt cantor (one who chants or sings) · gd feadan (the pipe of a bagpipe) · fr chalumeau (the pipe of a bagpipe) · bg псалт (one who chants or sings) · hu karénekes (one who chants or sings) · it canna della melodia (the pipe of a bagpipe) · bg свирка (the pipe of a bagpipe) · pl śpiewak (one who chants or sings) · hu kántor (one who chants or sings) · es cantor; cantante (one who chants or sings) · el ψάλτης (one who chants or sings) · fi melodiapilli (the pipe of a bagpipe) · pl piszczałka melodyczna (the pipe of a bagpipe) · pt ponteiro (the pipe of a bagpipe) · ota شرقیجی (one who chants or sings) · pl śpiewaczka (one who chants or sings) · es cantor (a priest who sings in a chantry) · hu szólamsíp (the pipe of a bagpipe) · de Melodiepfeife (the pipe of a bagpipe) · pt chantre (a priest who sings in a chantry)