# chant
## English
### Alternative forms

* (archaic) chaunt

### Etymology

From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /t͡ʃɑːnt/, /t͡ʃænt/
* (US) IPA: /t͡ʃænt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːnt, -ænt

### Verb

chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)
* To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind
* 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.
** 2009, Leo J. Daugherty III, The Marine Corps and the State Department, page 116: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).
* (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

#### Derived terms

* chantable
* chanting goshawk
* rechant
* unchanted

#### Translations

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### Noun

chant (plural chants)
* Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
* (music) A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
** (music, Anglicanism) 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.
** 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:His strange face, his strange chant.
* A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

#### Derived terms

* Ambrosian chant
* Anglican chant
* chantlike
* chant royal
* chant talk
* chant therapy
* fanchant
* Jody chant
* Milanese chant
* plainchant
* terrace chant

#### Translations
### Related terms

* cant
* cantor
* cantorate
* cantrix
* chant de cour
* chanter
* enchant
* Gregorian chant
* incantation
* Ramayana monkey chant

### Anagrams

* natch

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

chant
* inflection of chanten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* nacht

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

chant m (plural chants)
* song
    Synonym: chanson
** 2015, Fréro Delavega, Le chant des sirènes:Quand les souvenirs s’emmêlent, les larmes me viennent, et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* the discipline of singing

#### Derived terms

* chant du cygne
* chant grégorien

#### Related terms

* chanter

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: şan

### Further reading

* “chant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French chant.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

chant m (plural chants or chants)
* song
** 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:chant de Cycne est praesaige certain de sa mort prochainethe song of the swan is a certain prediction of its death

#### Descendants

* French: chant

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French chant.

### Noun

chant m (plural chants)
* (Jersey) song

#### Synonyms

* chanson

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin cantus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (early) /ˈtʃant/
* IPA: (late) /ˈʃant/
* Rhymes: -ant

### Noun

chant oblique singular, m (oblique plural chanz or chantz, nominative singular chanz or chantz, nominative plural chant)
* song
** c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 104, line 1027:car sun chant signefie mortfor his song signifies death

#### Synonyms

* chançon

#### Descendants

* Middle French: chant
** French: chant

## Romansch
### Verb

chant
* first-person singular present indicative of chantar

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /χant/

### Noun

chant
* Aspirate mutation of cant.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.