chant
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3.0
- noun
- /tʃænt/
:
cántico
- The students can hear the crowd chant: Mob: TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT, WE WILL NEVER INTEGRATE!
- singing and chants
- songs and chants
- a rhythmic chant
That mob's going to have to change their chant to wake him up.
- That mob's going to have to change their chant to wake him up.
- So when we do our prayer, there was a protest chant that you pray, we stay.
- So we need like a chant like heep hoe, heep hoe, right?
- So the white team goes up there and here's their chant.
- Do you ever regret not taking those chants?
- Were you there when we started Ryan Lynch for President Chant?
Examples
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Fans welcomed Tran with chants, cheers and a standing ovation.
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For children who did not initiate language, the teachers used chants and music to encourage oral expression.
Academic text (2007) -
The rhythmic chant flows through the open windows for all to hear.
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As the robes hustled to get him through the door, a chant went up, loud and fast.
Fiction book (1997) -
So they spot Reggie Mitchell across the room and three of them break into this chant, a chant with hand motions.
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The orange-themed protest featured children dressed in orange chanting "kids have a right to a mom and a dad."
Academic text (2013) -
Ice Fire let his soul sway to the chant of the White Tusk Clan's singers.
Fiction book (1990) -
Impromptu singing games that used chants were a favorite form of spontaneous, communal music-making at the school.
Academic text (2014) -
The Lombardo music gives way to the chanting of a distant crowd: "Sixty! Fifty-nine! Fifty-eight!"
Fiction book (1994) -
The crowd joined in a rhythmic chant to cheer for their team during the match.
Synonyms
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1.0
A piece of music with words that people sing
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6.1
A short repeated phrase used to calm or motivate you
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3.2
Many people making the same sound at the same time
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3.5
A part of a song repeated after each verse
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9.5
A sacred song of one melody that people sing with voices and no instruments in the Catholic Church
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9.9
A rhythmic work song sailors sing to help them work together
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9.9
A rhythmic song sailors sing to keep time while working on a ship
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8.3
A song sailors sing to keep a steady beat while they work together
A song or chant sung by a group, often during a ceremony
Antonyms
Compounds
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9.5
A sacred song of one melody that people sing with voices and no instruments in the Catholic Church
- Specialized
A way to write down chant melodies using small marks to show the tune
How Rhythmic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word chant comes from the old Latin verb cantare, which means 'to sing', and it is related to incantation, a repeated set of words used like a spell. So a chant is a short, rhythmic phrase that many people sing or shout together.