Definitions for Cantor

Cantor can·tor

Spelling: [kan-ter, -tawr]
IPA: /ˈkæn tər, -tɔr/

Cantor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in Cantor (acnort).

Definitions for Cantor

noun

  1. the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
  2. an official whose duty is to lead the singing in a cathedral or in a collegiate or parish church; a precentor.
  3. Eddie (Edward Israel Iskovitz) 1892–1964, U.S. singer and entertainer.
  4. Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1845–1918, German mathematician, born in Russia.

Origin of Cantor

1530-40; Latin: singer, equivalent to can(ere) to sing + -tor -tor

Examples for Cantor

"You hear what young Mr cantor has said," continued the lawyer.

We went up the river as far as cantor (some five hundred miles).

"I'll swear that's one of my pupils, he is so pugnacious," thought the cantor to himself.

“Singing for me, is a prayer,” Nozomi Kawaguchi, the Tokyo-born cantor of Mother Cabrini Shrine, said.

"I know'd it," said young cantor, clenching his fist almost in her face.

"Joe, ye shall be made to sit out in the kitchen; ye shall," said cantor the father.

cantor and his team, assuming a relatively easy victory was imminent, were blindsided last Tuesday in a double-digit loss.

Tellingly, cantor and Griffin received more financial support from outside their home states than within.

cantor raised more than $5 million in a primary he was supposed to win easily.

Before he heads for the exits, cantor can do something good for the country and broker a deal updating the Voting Rights Act.

Word Value for Cantor
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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