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CANTILLATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cantillation mean?
• CANTILLATION (noun)
The noun CANTILLATION has 1 sense:
1. liturgical chanting
Familiarity information: CANTILLATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Liturgical chanting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cantillation" is a kind of...):
chanting; intonation (the act of singing in a monotonous tone)
Derivation:
cantillate (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)
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