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chantest

chantest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of chant.

Meaning of chant

Verb

chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)

  1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
    • the cherefull birds of sundry kind / Do chaunt sweet musick, to delight his mind1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3
  2. To sing or intone sacred text.
  3. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.
    • The football fans chanted insults at the referee.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

See all 10 meanings of chant

Origin of chantest

chant + -est

Questions about chantest

What is chantest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chantest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of chant.

Words near chantest in the dictionary

  1. chanterelle
  2. chanterelles
  3. chanters
  4. chantership
  5. chanterships
  6. chantest
  7. chanteth
  8. chanteur
  9. chanteurs
  10. chanteuse
  11. chanteuses

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