Noun: chanter
| Singular | chanter |
| Plural | chanters |
Sample Sentences
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the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all. [1860s, anon, Lanigan's Ball (song)]
Nouns inflected like chanter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor. See: Middle English Nouns '
chauntour', Latin Nouns '
cantor', French Nouns '
chanteur'.