to chant

Examples

• All

• We all remember his rallies when the crowds chanted treat her fairly, treat her fairly.

  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• Then they were chanting queer rights, trans rights.

• And and we would chant in Turkish.

  Lex Fridman

• You would drum, you would dance, you would chant, you would shake a stick.

  Theo Von Clips

• So now she she goes around chanting a name.

  Ryan Pineda

• When we were sure nobody was in sight, we started to chant: Mumbi, the dear one

  Fiction book (1991)

• Rhythm: Have students chant the street cry from memory while patting the beat.

  Academic text (2015)

• And in my Saturday night, we chant God's names, we chant mantras, we also pray.

• During that period, scriptures are chanted aloud and devotees come to pay their final respects.

  Academic text (2001)

• During the ceremony, the congregation began to chant prayers in unison, filling the air with a rhythmic harmony.

Synonyms

I

to intone

vsto chant

3 7.2

Say words slowly in a steady, sometimes flat or musical voice

tends to be more rhythmic and repeatedly sung rather than slow

S

to singsong

vsto chant

1 6.1

To speak or chant with a regular, rhythmic rise and fall

allows wider pitch variation rather than minimal pitch change

C

to cantillate

vsto chant

• Specialized

9.9

To sing or say words in a chant, often prayers

covers repeated words in group or religious settings

I

to intonate

vsto chant

8.1

Say words in a musical or serious tone

focuses on repeated rhythmic words rather than dramatic tone

Antonyms

W

to whisper

586 1.0

To speak very quietly using only breath so one person can hear

Compounds

G

Gregorian chant

2 9.5

A sacred song of one melody that people sing with voices and no instruments in the Catholic Church

C

chant notation

• Specialized

9.9

A way to write down chant melodies using small marks to show the tune

How Repeated

to repeat

∞ 1.0

to chant

178 4.4

to intone

3 7.2

to say

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology