chant

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /tʃɑːnt/ or /tʃænt/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /tʃænt/

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Verb

Plain form chant

Third-person singular chants

Past tense chanted

Past participle chanted

Present participle chanting

1. To chant is to sing or recite in a simple, rhythmic way.

   The crowd at the cricket game began to chant "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi".

   At school I learned multiplication by chanting the simple sums, such as "two twos are four."

Noun

Singular chant

Plural chants

1. A chant is a simple repeated phrase.