Definitions for chantry

chantry chan·try

Spelling: [chan-tree, chahn-]
IPA: /ˈtʃæn tri, ˈtʃɑn-/

Chantry is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in chantry (achnrty).

Definitions for chantry

noun

  1. an endowment for the singing or saying of Mass for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them.
  2. a chapel or the like so endowed.
  3. the priests of a chantry endowment.
  4. a chapel attached to a church, used for minor services.

Origin of chantry

1300-50; Middle English chanterie Middle French. See chant, -ery

Examples for chantry

He built and endowed a (p. 352) chantry for the maintenance of three chaplains.

"It's not my damned code any more than yours," broke in chantry.

He is to live in the said chantry, and say mass daily in the chapel thereof.

He will probably never know why chantry, just then, began to be amiable.

The parishioners since gave it up as chantry land, and wronged themselves.

Naturally chantry did not want his friends' boots havocking upon it.

It was founded in the 14th century, in connexion with a chantry.

He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

chantry let him do it, though some imperceptible inch of his body winced.

He rebuilt the chapel of the Palace and founded a chantry in it.

Word Value for chantry
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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