Chant

Definition: Chant

Chant

Noun

1. A repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone.

Verb

1. Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant; "The rabbi chanted a prayer".

2. Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again".

Date "chant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Chant

Synonyms: cantillate (v), intonate (v), intone (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.
Worship	Psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet; antiphon, antiphony.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Chant

English words defined with "chant": Antiphone ♦ cantillate, Chaunt ♦ Gregorian chant ♦ Hallel, Hare Krishna ♦ intonate, intone ♦ Plain song, plainchant, plainsong ♦ singsong. (references)

Specialty definitions using "chant": Ambrosian Chant ♦ Bardit ♦ Chant du Depart ♦ grilf ♦ National Anthems ♦ RUM CHANT ♦ Weighed in the Balance, and found Wanting. (references)

Etymologies containing "chant": Precentor. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Chant" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (canto, chant, chirping, crowing, melody, ode, pipe, singing, song, vocal, warbling).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Here's my talisman, you change your mind, give me a chant. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Lyrics	Ami Chant (Return To Innocence; performing artist: Enigma)
Tongue Twisters	Chilly chipper children cheerfully chant. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Le Chant du monde (1965) Un chant d'amour (1950) Le Chant de l'exilé (1943) Tour de chant (1932) Le Chant du marin (1931)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An Introduction to Gregorian Chant (reference) Chant Made Simple (reference) Shooting Chant (reference) The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1: Charmed Life / The Lives of Christopher Chant (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Krishna Das - The Yoga of Chant (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Fire & Rose: Aquitanian Chant & Polyphony (reference) Le Chant Basque (reference) Chant & Spirituality (reference) Chicano Chant (reference) Chant Corpus Christi (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Chant D'Amour. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Chant.		Piano; chant; low; baritone; bass; sing; song; sang.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Emily Dickinson	His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	When he was about to leave, he resolved to chant a Te Deum with pontifical ceremonies
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Zimbabwe	In 2000 a Daily News journalist, a photographer, and a driver, were detained, threatened, and forced to remove their clothes and chant ZANU-PF slogans. (references)
	Zimbabwe	On January 23, war veterans and other ZANU-PF supporters raided the Harare offices of the Daily News for several hours, harassing and assaulting Daily News reporters and staff who entered or exited the building, beating passers-by who failed to chant ZANU-PF slogans, and destroying property. (references)
Human Rights	Zimbabwe	Hundreds of villagers were rounded up, driven to remote areas, and forced to chant ZANU-PF slogans or denounce the opposition until the next morning. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Chant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.21% of the time. "Chant" is used about 351 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	77.21%	271	17,854
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	12.25%	43	52,181
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.27%	22	74,468
Noun (proper)	4.27%	15	90,616
Total	100.00%	351	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "chant" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Chant	Last name	170	47,968
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "chant": Ambrosian chant ♦ chant du cygne ♦ Chant royal ♦ chant the praises of smb. ♦ gregorian chant ♦ plain chant ♦ Tao Healing Energy Chant ♦ to chant horses ♦ To chant or chaunt. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "chant": drone-chant, gospel-chant, half-chant, Ormiston-chant, plain-chant.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "chant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të folur i zvarritur, psalm (psalm), psal, përsërit pa pushim (ding, persist), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), lartësoj (celebrate, elevate, exalt, extol, glorify, lift up, magnify, raise, rear, rise, spring, sublimate, uplift), këndoj himn, himn (anthem, hymn, Laud, Maidenhead, paean). (various references)

Arabic		‏غنى (affluence, croon, enrich, make money, opulence, perform, render, riches, richness, sang, sing, sung, warble, wealth), ‏ترنيمة (gradual, hymn, psalm, sequence), ‏ترنم (intone, psalm), ‏ترتيلة (hymn), ‏إنشودة, ‏أغنية رتيبة, ‏رتل (be regular, column, cue, intone, queue, run, string). (various references)

Bulgarian		скандирам (scan), възпявам (berhyme, berime, descant, hymn, sing, tune), повтарям монотонно (cuckoo), песнопение (hymnody), песен (air, canticle, canto, chanson, note, song, strain, tune), пея монотонно (drone, monotone), пея псалми, пея (descant, jug, perform, pipe, sing, vocalize). (various references)

Chinese		高�"� (sing loudly), 歌� , 歌颂 (Chanted, Chanting), �"� (recite). (various references)

Czech		chorál (anthem, choral), zpívat (appear, cough, sing), skandovat (declaim, scan), skandování, opìvovat (extol, sing), liturgický zpìv. (various references)

Farsi		مناجات (Cant), سرودیااهنگ خواندن , سرود (Anthem, Canto, Hymn, Psalm, Sing, Song, Warble), اهنگ ساده وکشیده . (various references)

Finnish		messuta (intone, say mass). (various references)

French		chanter (chirp), chant scandé, chant (chirping), scander, réciter, psalmodier, psalmodie (chanting), melopée. (various references)

German		Gesang (canto, chanting, hymn, note, singing, song), Kirchenlied, singen (blab, buzz, buzzing, Carol, chanting, give, grass, hum, humming, sing, sing away, singing, squeal, to sing (sang, vocalize). (various references)

Greek		μέλοσ (limb, melody, member, tune), φωνάζω συνθήματα, άσμα (canticle, canto, lay, singing, song, strain), ψέλνω, ψάλλω (sing), ψαλμωδία (psalmody). (various references)

Hebrew		מזמור (hymn, psalm, song), לשיר (sing), לזמר (praise, sing), לרון (sing), לר� ן (murmur, praise, sing), שיר (hymn, poem, poetry, song), ר� � �" (exultation, prayer, song). (various references)

Hungarian		zsolozsma (even song, hymn), monoton dallam, kántálás (cantata, cantillation, singsong, sing-song), egyhangú dallam, egyházi ének (choral, chorale, hymn), éneklés (intonation, singing, warble), éneklő hanghordozás, éneklő beszédmodor (cant). (various references)

Indonesian		nyanyian gereja. (various references)

Italian		canto (canto, corner, lyric, minstrelsy, singing, song), cantico; cantare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		聖歌 (hymn, sacred song), 吟誦 (recital, recitation), 吟�"� (recital, recitation), 朗誦 (recitation), 朗�"� (recitation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎ�"しょう (recital, recitation, silver general), せいか (confectionery, essence, fame, flower, flower arrangement, fresh flowers, fruitand vegetables, fruits, glory, governing one's family, height of summer, home, hymn, influential family, lower abdomen, metallic currency, midsummer, net price, regular curriculum, regular price, reputation, request for leave of absence, required subject, results, sacred fire, sacred song, shoe-making, specie, the man in power, vacation request), ろうしょう (Labor Minister, old or veteran army general, old pine tree, recitation, young and old). (various references)

Korean		노래를 부르십시�". (various references)

Manx		canteyraght, caayney (beg, bray, drawl, whine). (various references)

Norwegian		sang, messe. (various references)

Pig Latin		antchay.(various references)

Portuguese		canto (angle, brink, brow, cantation, canthi, canto, cantus, corner, descant, edge, melody, nook, song), cântico (canticle, carol), salmo (miserere, psalm), entoar cântico. (various references)

Romanian		cântec monoton (singsong), cânta monoton, vorbire monotonã, vorbi monoton, spune în mod monoton, slãvi (bless, emblazon, exalt, glorify, Laud, praise), psalmodiere (intonation), psalmodia (intone), psalm (psalm), melodie liturgicã. (various references)

Russian		монотонно повторять, бубнить, песнь (canto, lay), песнопение (motet), петь нараспев, петь пение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		crkvena pesma, skandirati, pevati misu. (various references)

Spanish		corear, canto (back, call, canto, cantus, crow, duet, edge, hymn, lay, minstrelsy, rim, sing, singing, song, thickness, vocals), cantar (cough, edge, jingle, let on, perform, sing, song, sound, squeal), llanto (bawl, crying, denunciation, weeping), gritar (bark, bawl, bawl out, bellow, break out, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry out, faggot, fagot, halloo, holler, hoot, howl, outcry, scold, scream, shout, shout out, shriek, shrill out, sing out, to shout, whoop, yell). (various references)

Swedish		sång (canto, lay, singing, song, warble), mässa (exhibition, fair, intonate, intone, mass, service). (various references)

Turkish		terane tutturmak, terane, tekrarlayıp durmak (do to death, harp on the same string, perseverate), monoton ses tonu, monoton bir sesle söylemek (drone, intonate, intone, singsong), monoton şarkı, ilahi söylemek (hymn), ilahi (anthem, canticle, celestial, divine, elysian, godly, heavenly, hymn, psalm), dini şarkı, şarkı söylemek (descant, have a sing, sing, sing a song), çok tekrarlanıp bıktıran söz. (various references)

Ukrainian		співати (cantillate, carp, crow, descant, sing, vocalize, warble), співи, спів (anthem, canto, motet, note, singing, song, warble), церковний спів, говорити співуче, оспівувати (celebrate), наспів (canto, croon, descant), монотонно розповідувати, монотонний спів (singsong), журливий наспів, пісня (canto, chanson, descant, glee, song, warble), декламація співучим голосом. (various references)

Welsh		corganu, corgan, canu (crow, play, ring, sing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	can, canam, canamus, cane, canebant, canendum, canens, canentem, canentes, canentium, canere, canerentque, caneret, canes, canet, canetis, cani, canis, canite, canitis, canitur, cano, canti, cantorum, cantu, cantum, cecinerunt, cecineruntque, cecinimus, cecinit, concinebant, concinentem, concinentibus, concinetur. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	fragâthremca. (various references)
Old North French	1200-1500	canter. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Amos Chapter 6, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Oi epikrotounteV proV thn fwnhn twn organwn wV estwta elogisanto kai ouc wV feugonta
Latin	405	Vulgate	Qui canitis ad vocem psalterii sicut David putaverunt se habere vasa cantici
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whiche ye syngen at voice of psautrie. As Dauid thei gessiden hem for to haue vessels of song,
Jacobean English	1611	King James	That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Amos Chapter 6, Verse 5
Albanian	Këndojnë me tingullin e harpës dhe ashtu si Davidi shpikin për vete vegla muzikore;
Cebuano	Nga nagaawit sa mga alawiton nga walay hinungdan dinuyogan sa honi sa violin, ug nagamugna alang sa ilang kaugalingon mga tulonggon sa musica, sama ni David;
Croatian	deru se uza zvuk harfe, izumljuju glazbala k'o David,
Danish	de kvidrer til Harpeklang og opfinder Strengeleg som David;
Dutch	Die op het geklank der luit kwinkeleren, en bedenken zichzelven instrumenten der muziek, gelijk David;
Finnish	jotka sepustatte lauluja harpulla säestäen ja sommittelette soittimia kuin mikäkin Daavid;
French	Ils extravaguent au son du luth, Ils se croient habiles comme David sur les instruments de musique.
German	und spielt auf dem Psalter und erdichtet euch Lieder wie David,
Haitian Creole	Y'ap plede ranse pandan gita ap jwe. Yo kwè yo jwe mizik tankou David.
Hungarian	A kik hárfa mellett dalolgatnak, és azt hiszik, hogy hangszereik a Dávidéi;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kamu senang menggubah nyanyian, seperti yang dilakukan oleh Daud, dan kamu memainkan lagu-lagu itu dengan kecapi.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Yang menyanyi disertakan bunyi dandi dan mengarang akan dirinya beberapa bunyi-bunyian seperti Daud!
Italian	Canterellano al suono dell'arpa, si pareggiano a David negli strumenti musicali;
Maori	E waiata na i nga waiata poauau ki te rangi hatere; e whakaaroa ana hoki e ratou nga mea whakatangi, e pera ana me Rawiri;
Norwegian	som synger allslags tull til harpens toner og har uttenkt eder strengeinstrumenter, likesom David,
Portuguese	que garganteiam ao som da lira, e inventam para si instrumentos músicos, assim como Davi;
Rumanian	Aiureazq kn sunetul alqutei, se cred iscusiyi ca David kn instrumentele de muzicq.
Russian	� ПЕФЕ � П�" ЪЧХЛЙ ЗХУМЕК, �"ХНБС, ЮФП ЧМБ�"ЕЕФЕ НХЪЩЛБМШОЩН ПТХ�"ЙЕН, ЛБЛ дБЧЙ�",
Spanish	Improvisáis al son de la lira e inventáis instrumentos musicales, al estilo de David.
Swedish	I som skrålen visor till harpans ljud och tänken ut åt eder musikinstrumenter såsom David;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "chant": chantage, chantages, chanted, chanter, chanterelle, chanterelles, chanters, chanteuse, chanteuses, chantey, chanteys, chanticleer, chanticleers, chanties, chanting, chantor, chantors, chantries, chantry, chants, chanty. (additional references)
	Words ending with "chant": bacchant, couchant, disenchant, enchant, etchant, merchant, penchant, plainchant, trenchant. (additional references)
	Words containing "chant": bacchante, bacchantes, bacchants, disenchanted, disenchanter, disenchanters, disenchanting, disenchantingly, disenchantment, disenchantments, disenchants, enchanted, enchanter, enchanters, enchanting, enchantingly, enchantment, enchantments, enchantress, enchantresses, enchants, etchants, merchantabilities, merchantability, merchantable, merchanted, merchanting, merchantman, merchantmen, merchants, penchants, plainchants, trenchantly, trochanter, trochanteral, trochanteric, trochanters, unenchanted. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Chant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achan, cahot, cannt, cantt, Cantv, chaat, chaft, chait, chalt, chan, cha'n, chanc, chand, Chandu, chane, Chanet, chang, Ch'ang, Chani, channa, Chano, chanot, chante, Chanto, chanty, chaot, chapt, chaung, chawn, chenu, cheny, Chhang, chheng, chinot, Chinta, chinto, chn, Chnang, chunt, chunty, Chwang, Chyan, ciant, crant, ghant, Ichang, Khant, phant, Schnath, shant, tchat, thant, whant. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "chant" (pronounced kha"nt)
4	kh a" n t	disenchant, enchant.
3	-a" n t	ant, Aunt, Brant, cant, implant, incant, decant, grant, levant, pant, plant, Quant, rant, recant, replant, scant, slant, supplant, transplant.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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	Direct Anagrams: natch.
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-n-t"
	-1 letter: cant, chat, hant, tach, than.
	-2 letters: act, ant, can, cat, hat, nah, nth, tan.
	-3 letters: ah, an, at, ha, na, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-n-t"
	+1 letter: canthi, chants, chanty, chaunt, nautch, snatch, stanch.
	+2 letters: acanthi, canthal, canthus, chanted, chanter, chantey, chantor, chantry, chasten, chaunts, enchant, etchant, gnathic, jacinth, manchet, snatchy, staunch, tachyon, tranche, unlatch, unteach, xanthic.
	+3 letters: acanthus, anchoret, anorthic, asthenic, atechnic, bacchant, batching, catching, catechin, cenotaph, chantage, chanters, chanteys, chanties, chanting, chantors, charting, chastens, chatting, chaunted, chaunter, cheating, chitosan, couchant, dutchman, echinate, enchants, etchants, ethician, ethnarch, ethnical, handcart, haptenic, hatching, hoactzin, hyacinth, inchoate, jacinthe, jacinths, katchina, latching, manchets, matching, merchant, nautches, nightcap, nuthatch, patching, penchant, pentarch, pitchman, planchet, scathing, snatched, snatcher, snatches, stanched, stancher, stanches, stanchly, tachinid, tachyons, teaching, thacking, thinclad, tranches, trichina, uncatchy, uncaught, unchaste, watching, watchman, watchmen, whinchat, yachting, yachtman, yachtmen.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cheer chant	351	chant cours de	14
chant	263	chant for cheerleader	14
gregorian chant	168	chant jump rope	13
chant softball	117	beta chant phi zeta	13
cheerleading chant	117	pagan chant	13
cheerleading cheer chant	93	chant child	12
chant spells	47	chant love	12
chant cheer softball	43	chant cheer cheerleader	11
baseball chant	39	jazz chant	11
buddhist chant	31	victory chant	10
wiccan chant	31	alpha alpha chant kappa	10
chant gregorian master	24	auctioneer chant	10
chant soccer	23	chant religieux	10
chant d oiseaux	19	chant d oiseau	10
delta sigma theta chant	19	chant realty	10
alpha chant kappa psi	18	chant magic	9
hawaiian chant	17	byzantine chant	9
chant football	17	alpha alpha chant phi	9
chant cheer football	16	chant realtor	9
chant master	15	chant estate real	9
		chant kc maldoror	9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chant

Definition: Chant

Chant

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Specialty Definition: Football chant

List of football teams whose chants are described in Wikipedia

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