Helen Fenton

Chant: Definition and part of speech

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Chant

  1. v. t. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
  2. v. t. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
  3. v. t. To celebrate in song.
  4. v. t. To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
  5. v. i. To make melody with the voice; to sing.
  6. v. i. To sing, as in reciting a chant.
  7. v. t. Song; melody.
  8. v. t. 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.
  9. v. t. A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.