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chazanut

chazanut is the alternative form of chazzanut.

Meaning of chazzanut

Noun

chazzanut (uncountable)

  1. Jewish liturgical music, as performed by a cantor.
    • His [Sholom Friede] numerous collections are retained in the Hebrew Union College library […] containing in all about two hundred numbers, in the style of the eighteenth century. He had a love for the Polish-Jewish songs; and due to that fact, we are in possession of the early Polish chazzanuth and...1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 230

Questions about chazanut

What is chazanut the alternative form of?
Chazanut is the alternative form of chazzanut.

Words near chazanut in the dictionary

  1. Chazals
  2. chazan
  3. chazanic
  4. chazanim
  5. chazans
  6. chazanut
  7. chazanuth
  8. Chazar
  9. Chazars
  10. Chazen
  11. chazerai

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