Definitions for chanter

chanter chant·er

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

Chanter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in chanter (acehnrt).

Definitions for chanter

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 chanter

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

Examples for chanter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for chanter
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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