Chant

Verb

 * 1) To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.

Noun

 * 1) Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

Adjectives for Chant
intoned; low; emotional; deep-toned; touching; barbaric; monotonous; fragmentary; musical; frenzied; rhythmical; sonorous; rude; solemn; wild; pathetic; droning; mellow; melancholy; triumphant; virginal; wailing; aspirated; joyful; impassioned; aritiphonal; liturgic; Gregorian; weird; doleful; guttural; nasal; funeral; ominous; intellectual; wordless; outlandish; obstreperous; pagan; tribal; lachrymose; eerie.

Thesaurus
hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, intonate, intone, keen, laud, lay, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, mantra, matin, minstrel, minstrel song, minstrelsy, monody, motet, mumble, murmur, mutter, national anthem, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, pant, pipe, prothalamium, psalm, psalmody, quaver, refrain, repeat, repetend, report, response, responsory, ritornello, roar, roulade, rumble, scream, screech, serena, serenade, serenata, shake, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, sing in chorus, singsong, snap, snarl, snort, sob, sol-fa, solmizate, song, squall, squawk, squeal, theme song, thunder, torch song, tremolo, trill, troll, trumpet, tune, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, undersong, versicle, vocalize, wail, war song, warble, wedding song, whine, whisper, whistle, yap, yawp, yell, yelp, yodel, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, Volkslied, alba, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bark, bawl, bellow, bis, blare, blat, blubber, blues, blues song, boat song, bob, boom, bray, breathe, bridal hymn, brindisi, burden, buzz, cackle, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chantey, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorale, chorus, coo, croon, croon song, crow, descant, dirge, ditto, ditty, do-re-mi, doxology, drawl, drinking song, epithalamium, exclaim, flute, folk song, gasp, growl, grunt, hallelujah, hiss, hosanna, hum, hymeneal,

Alternative forms

 * chaunt

Etymology
From chanter:, from  canto:

Related terms

 * enchant
 * Gregorian chant
 * incantation

Verb

 * Bulgarian: напявам
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Nahuatl: tlatoa
 * Spanish: salmodiar

Anagrams

 * natch

Anagrams

 * nacht

Etymology
cantus:

Noun

 * 1) song

Synonyms

 * chanson

Related terms

 * chanter

Etymology
cantus:

Noun

 * 1) song

Synonyms

 * chançon

Noun
chant


 * 1) Cant with the aspirate mutation.