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chauntry

chauntry is the obsolete form of chantry.

Meaning of chantry

Noun

chantry (plural chantries)

  1. An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people.
  2. A chapel set up for this purpose.

Forms of chauntry

pluralchauntries

Questions about chauntry

What is chauntry the obsolete form of?
Chauntry is the obsolete form of chantry.

Words near chauntry in the dictionary

  1. chaunter
  2. chaunters
  3. chaunting
  4. chauntings
  5. chauntries
  6. chauntry
  7. chaunts
  8. chaupal
  9. chaupala
  10. chaupalas
  11. chaupals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chauntry (page history and authors); chantry (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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