Definitions for chanters

chanters chant·er

Spelling: [chan-ter, chahn-]
IPA: /ˈtʃæn tər, ˈtʃɑn-/

Chanters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 545 anagrams from letters in chanters (acehnrst).

Definitions for chanters

noun

  1. a person who chants; singer.
  2. a chorister; precentor.
  3. the chief singer or priest of a chantry.
  4. the pipe of a bagpipe provided with finger holes for playing the melody.

Origin of chanters

1250-1300; chant + -er1; replacing Middle English chantour Anglo-French, variant of Old French chanteor Latin cantātōr-, equivalent

Examples for chanters

The door creaked as the chanter entered who was to relieve his predecessor.

He polished the silver and rubbed the chanter carefully to remove the dust.

Never a roar of the drone or a sob of the chanter but's in the Gaelic tongue.

He is a cogger of dice, I tell thee—a chanter of horseflesh.

He said he had received the chanter and the power to play it from the fairies.

"He yells loud enough to deafen a chanter," continued Gauchre.

On his left he had the sub-chanter, on his right, the chanter, armed with his official wand.

The chanter did not arrive until the afternoon of October 23.

Then it became the province of the chanter to completely obliterate it.

Behind the priest and a chanter stood the notabilities on a spot reserved for them.

Word Value for chanters
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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