chaunt

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A form of chant — To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.

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Meanings

nounchaunt (plural chaunts)

plural chaunts

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of chant.
verbchaunt (third-person singular simple present chaunts, present participle chaunting, simple past and past participle chaunted)

present singular third person chaunts · participle present chaunting · participle past chaunted · past chaunted

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of chant.

    Happier in reascent, than in his fall mournful, and through all purifying spheres perfective, let the bard his harp restrung, chaunt […]

    1901 [1839], Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, London: George Routledge & Sons, page 9

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

nautch
Cite this entry
APA

chaunt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chaunt

MLA

“chaunt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chaunt. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chaunt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chaunt.

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