CHANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chanted mean? 

• CHANTED (adjective)
  The adjective CHANTED has 1 sense:

1. sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone

  Familiarity information: CHANTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone

Context example:

a chanted psalm

Similar:

musical (characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music)

 Context examples 

Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Pulling off his cap, and clasping his hands, he chanted in a shrill voice: “Benedictus dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad proelium, et digitos meos ad bellum.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue fires, in the light of which danced the hula dancers to the barbaric love- calls of the singers, who chanted to tinkling ukuleles and rumbling tom- toms.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)