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chantor

chantor is the alternative form of chanter.

Meaning of chanter

Noun

chanter (plural chanters)

  1. One who chants or sings.
  2. A priest who sings in a chantry.
  3. The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
    • the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.1860s, anon, Lanigan's Ball (song)
  4. The hedge sparrow.
  5. (archaic) One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Forms of chantor

pluralchantors

Questions about chantor

What is chantor the alternative form of?
Chantor is the alternative form of chanter.

Words near chantor in the dictionary

  1. chantments
  2. chantoosie
  3. chantoosies
  4. chantoozie
  5. chantoozies
  6. chantor
  7. chantors
  8. chantress
  9. chantresses
  10. Chantrey
  11. chantries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chantor (page history and authors); chanter (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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