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单词 chant
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chant

noun
/tʃɑːnt/
/tʃænt/
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  1. [countable] words or phrases that a group of people shout or sing again and again
    • The crowd broke into chants of ‘Out! Out!’
    • football chants
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • ritual
    • traditional
    • Gregorian
    • …
    verb + chant
    • sing
    • keep up
    • hear
    • …
    preposition
    • amid chants
    • to chants
    • chant of
    • …
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  2. [countable, uncountable] a religious song or prayer or a way of singing, using only a few notes that are repeated many times
    • a Buddhist chant
    see also Gregorian chantTopics Religion and festivalsc2, Musicc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • ritual
    • traditional
    • Gregorian
    • …
    verb + chant
    • sing
    • keep up
    • hear
    • …
    preposition
    • amid chants
    • to chants
    • chant of
    • …
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    3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘sing’): from Old French chanter ‘sing’, from Latin cantare, frequentative of canere ‘sing’.

chant

verb
/tʃɑːnt/
/tʃænt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they chant
/tʃɑːnt/
/tʃænt/
he / she / it chants
/tʃɑːnts/
/tʃænts/
past simple chanted
/ˈtʃɑːntɪd/
/ˈtʃæntɪd/
past participle chanted
/ˈtʃɑːntɪd/
/ˈtʃæntɪd/
-ing form chanting
/ˈtʃɑːntɪŋ/
/ˈtʃæntɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] to sing or shout the same words or phrases many times
    • A group of protesters, chanting and carrying placards, waited outside.
    • chant something The crowd chanted their hero's name.
    • ‘Resign! Resign!’ they chanted.
  2. [intransitive, transitive] chant (something) to sing or say a religious song or prayer using only a few notes that are repeated many times
    • In a nearby temple, our guide chanted a prayer and lit a stick of incense.
    Topics Musicc2
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘sing’): from Old French chanter ‘sing’, from Latin cantare, frequentative of canere ‘sing’.
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