chant
noun/tʃɑːnt/
/tʃænt/
- [countable] words or phrases that a group of people shout or sing again and again
- The crowd broke into chants of ‘Out! Out!’
- football chants
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ritual
- traditional
- Gregorian
- …
- sing
- keep up
- hear
- …
- amid chants
- to chants
- chant of
- …
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- [countable, uncountable] a religious song or prayer or a way of singing, using only a few notes that are repeated many times
- a Buddhist chant
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ritual
- traditional
- Gregorian
- …
- sing
- keep up
- hear
- …
- amid chants
- to chants
- chant of
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘sing’): from Old French chanter ‘sing’, from Latin cantare, frequentative of canere ‘sing’.
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