Meaning

5 senses

  1. One who chants or sings.

  2. A priest who sings in a chantry.

  3. The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.

    Melodiepfeife

    reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played

  4. The hedge sparrow.

  5. (archaic)One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The idea of having the chanter in stereo seems very interesting to me.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
the pipe of a bagpipe:

Origin

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

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Forms

plural: chanters

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played:melody pipe

Word family

4 related words
Relatedchant
Derivedchanteredchantresssubchanter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
channelB1chantchaosB1chaoticB2chap

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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