Word Meanings - CHANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant. (more info) 1. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music. Spenser. 2. To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters.

Additional info about word: CHANT

To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant. (more info) 1. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music. Spenser. 2. To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters. Bramhall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHANT)

• Carol
• Sing
• warble
• chirp
• trill
• whistle
• chirrup
• chant

Related words: (words related to CHANT)

• CAROLING
  A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.
• CAROLINE
  A coin. See Carline.
• TRILLION
  According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced
• CHIRPER
  One who chirps, or is cheerful.
• WARBLE
  1. To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. Gay. 3. To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations. "Birds on the branches warbling." Milton. 3. To sing with sudden
• CHANTERELLE
  A name for several species of mushroom, of which one is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
• CHANTEY
  A sailor's song. May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea Kipling.
• CAROLUS
  An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
• CHANTING
  Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon , an African falcon . The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.
• WHISTLER
  The hoary, or northern, marmot . (more info) 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound. The ring ousel. The widgeon. The golden-eye. The golden plover and the gray plover.
• CAROLINIAN
  A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
• CHIRRUP
  To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
• CAROL; CARROL
  A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.
• CHANTICLEER
  A cock, so called from the clearness or loundness of his voice in crowing. (more info) Roman du Renart ; chanter to chant + clair clear.
• TRILL
  A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake. (more info) 1. A sound, of consonantal character,
• CAROLINA PINK
  See PINKBOOT
• WHISTLE
  1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves
• WHISTLEWING
  The American golden-eye.
• WARBLER
  Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidæ, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler , and sedge warbler are well-known species. (more info) 1. One who, or
• TRILLING
  A compound crystal, consisting of three individuals. (more info) 1. One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.
• TROCHANTER
  One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
• TROCHANTERIC
  Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
• BACCHANTE
  1. A priestess of Bacchus. 2. A female bacchanal.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• MERCHANTRY
  1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
• UNMERCHANTABLE
  Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is unsalable. McElrath.
• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• BACCHANT
  1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.
• BROCHANTITE
  A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
• INCHANT
  See ENCHANT