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cantors

cantors is the plural of cantor.

Meaning of cantor

Noun

cantor (plural cantors)

  1. A singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony.
    • The cantor's place in church is on the right of the choir.
  2. (Judaism) A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan.

See all 3 meanings of cantor

Proper noun capitalized: Cantors

Cantors

  1. (plural) plural of Cantor

Questions about cantors

What is cantors the plural of?
Cantors is the plural of cantor.
What part of speech is cantors?
Cantors is a proper noun.

Words near cantors in the dictionary

  1. cantorial
  2. Cantorian
  3. Cantorianly
  4. cantorias
  5. cantoris
  6. cantors
  7. cantorship
  8. cantorships
  9. cantos
  10. Cantoses
  11. cantour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cantors (page history and authors); Cantors (page history and authors); cantor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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