Definitions for intone

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intone in·tone

Spelling: [in-tohn]

IPA: /ɪnˈtoʊn/

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

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in intone (einnot).

Definitions for intone

verb (used with object)

1. to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
2. to give tone or variety of tone to; vocalize.
3. to utter in a singing voice (the first tones of a section in a liturgical service).
4. to recite or chant in monotone.

verb (used without object)

1. to speak or recite in a singing voice, especially in monotone; chant.
2. Music. to produce a tone, or a particular series of tones, like a scale, especially with the voice.

Origin of intone

1475-85; Medieval Latin intonāre; replacing earlier entone Middle French entoner Medieval Latin; see in-², tone

Examples for intone

We will intone the battle-psalms, and from the Lozre to the sea Israel shall arise.

Invisible choristers, among whom we seem to distinguish voices of men and youths, now intone a mystic chant.

But considered as a whole, the singers are like actors, who intone instead of speaking.

Has not man something better to do than to learn to bow, to intone, to admire flowers, and to look at painted glass?

Only a few months before she had seldom seen him intone grace at all.

intone, nevertheless, he did; and as badly as mortal man well could!

You know: I am to intone that these pundits think of Obama as an “uppity Negro.”

I seized the Targa's arm as he was starting to intone his refrain for the third time.

He shook his head knowingly, as if to intone the word ‘New York,’ were to intone a universal spirit of ‘anything goes’.

My body shall be the altar, and my sighs the vows, and I will intone the service in thousands and thousands of verses.