CHANTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chanting mean? 

• CHANTING (noun)
  The noun CHANTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of singing in a monotonous tone

  Familiarity information: CHANTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of singing in a monotonous tone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chanting; intonation

Hypernyms ("chanting" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chanting"):

cantillation (liturgical chanting)

Derivation:

chant (recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm)

 Context examples 

Then at the end of the verse the scourge changed hands and the chanting began anew.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here an ancient monastery, whence the solemn chanting of the monks came down to them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The pages of his mind were blank, and, without effort, much he read and liked, stanza by stanza, was impressed upon those pages, so that he was soon able to extract great joy from chanting aloud or under his breath the music and the beauty of the printed words he had read.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As they came up to them, Alleyne could hear the doleful dirge which the beater was chanting, bringing down his heavy whip at the end of each line, while the groans of the sufferer formed a sort of dismal chorus.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing lighted tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man beside her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)