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cantion

cantion noun: a song, poem or incantation.

Noun

cantion (plural cantions)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A song, poem or incantation.
    • the same person was brought in singing a Cantion of Colin's making1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

Forms of cantion

pluralcantions

Origin of cantion

Learned borrowing from Latin cantiō, from canere (“to sing”). Doublet of chanson and canzone. By surface analysis, Latin cant- + -ion.

Questions about cantion

What does cantion mean?
Cantion means a song, poem or incantation.
What part of speech is cantion?
Cantion is a noun.
What is the plural of cantion?
The plural of cantion is cantions.

Words near cantion in the dictionary

  1. cantingness
  2. cantings
  3. cantinière
  4. cantinières
  5. Cantins
  6. cantion
  7. cantions
  8. cantish
  9. cantitruncated
  10. cantitruncation
  11. cantitruncations

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