Cant

Noun

 * 1) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
 * 2) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
 * 3) Shelta.
 * 4) Empty, hypocritical talk.
 * 5) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
 * 6)  A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name of the bearer.
 * 7)  corner, niche
 * 8) slope, the angle at which something is set.
 * 9) A movement or throw that overturns something.

Verb

 * 1)  To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
 * 2)  To speak in set phrases.
 * 3)  To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
 * 4)  Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
 * 5)  To set (something) at an angle.
 * 6)  To bevel an edge or corner.
 * 7)  To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
 * 8)  To divide or parcel out.

Adjective

 * 1)  lively, lusty.

Adjectives for Cant
specious; traditional.

Synonyms

 * argot, jargon, slang
 * chant, singsong

Related terms

 * descant
 * cantilever

Thesaurus
slang, slant, slew, slope, snivel, snuffle, snuffling, soft soap, soft-soap, speak, speech, spirited, sprightly, swag, sway, sweet talk, sweet-talk, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, taboo language, tack, talk, throw about, tilt, tip, tokenism, tower of Pisa, turn, turn back, unction, unctuousness, uprise, use language, veer, vernacular, vertex, vivacious, vocabulary, vulgar language, wear, wear ship, wind, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag, about ship, affectation, affectedness, alert, angle, angularity, animate, animated, apex, argot, ascend, babble, back and fill, bank, be hypocritical, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bifurcation, bight, blandish, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant round, careen, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, chevron, cipher, climb, code, coin, colloquialize, come about, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, cryptogram, decline, deflection, descend, dialect, diction, dictionary, dip, dogleg, double Dutch, double a point, drop, elbow, ell, empty gesture, fall, fall away, fall off, false piety, falseness, fetch about, fork, furcation, garble, gay, gibberish, gift of tongues, give lip service, give mouth honor, glossolalia, go about, go downhill, go uphill, gobbledygook, goody-goodiness, grade, gybe, heave round, heel, hook, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, idiom, inclination, incline, inflection, insincerity, jargon, jargonize, jibe, jibe all standing, jumble, keel, keen, knee, language, lay down, lean, leaning, leaning tower, lexicon, lie along, lingo, lip service, list, mealymouthedness, miss stays, mouth, mouthing, mumbo jumbo, mummery, noise, nook, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, palaver, patois, patter, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phraseology, pidgin, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, pitch, play the hypocrite, ply, point, pretension, put about, put back, quoin, rake, recline, reek of piety, religionism, religiosity, render lip service, retreat, rise, round a point, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, scatology, scramble, secret language, self-righteousness, sham, sheer, shelve, shift, shop, sidle,

Etymology 1

 * 1) From  canto: probably via  canter:, cognate with chant:.
 * 2) From, presumably from  *undefined: