Definition of "chant"

chant

/t͡ʃɑːnt/

verb
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.
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  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, stanza 3
2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
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  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
4. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
noun
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.
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  His strange face, his strange chant.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
4. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

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chant

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