CANTILLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cantillate mean? 

• CANTILLATE (verb)
  The verb CANTILLATE has 1 sense:

1. recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

  Familiarity information: CANTILLATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANTILLATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cantillate; chant; intonate; intone

Context example:

The rabbi chanted a prayer

Hypernyms (to "cantillate" is one way to...):

sing (produce tones with the voice)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cantillate"):

singsong (speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will cantillate the duet

Derivation:

cantillation (liturgical chanting)