chantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantō, cantāre (“to sing”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːnt/, /tʃænt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /tʃænt/
• 韻: -ɑːnt

動詞

chant (三人称単数 現在形 chants, 現在分詞 chanting, 過去形および過去分詞形 chanted)

1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
   • (Can we date this quote by Spenser かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The cheerful birds […] do chant sweet music.

2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

   The football fans chanted insults at the referee.

   • 2009, Leo J. Daugherty III, The Marine Corps and the State Department, p 116 [1]

     On their way to Parliament Square, the demonstrators chanted slogans, sang the Hungarian national anthem, and waved banners and Hungarian flags (minus the hated Communist emblem).

4. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

名詞

chant (複数形 chants)

1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
2. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:

     His strange face, his strange chant.

4. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.

関連する語

• enchant
• Gregorian chant
• incantation

アナグラム

• natch