verb To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
verb To sing or intone sacred text.
verb To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
verb To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
noun Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
noun A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. A harmonized melody used in Anglican chant, usually split into two two-bar phrases, to which the words of a psalm are sung by a choir; typically, each musical phrase corresponds to the text of half of a verse.
noun A harmonized melody used in Anglican chant, usually split into two two-bar phrases, to which the words of a psalm are sung by a choir; typically, each musical phrase corresponds to the text of half of a verse.