OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10348

chant

/t͡ʃɑːnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
canto (disused) • canturria • canturía • cántico • melopea • melopeya • salmodia
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 10347

chant

/t͡ʃɑːnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
canturrear • canturriar • cantusar • cantusear • salmodiar
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
corear
To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
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).
The football fans chanted insults at the referee.