chanter

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Recent Examples of chanter The main chanter was Obsidian Tiburon, a Taino representative of the American Indian Movement who came down from Orlando to attend the protest. Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2025 On a separate platform to the right of the action, three male chanters sit in a neat row, next to men playing the shamisen, a stringed instrument with a raw and piercing tone which is often used in vocal accompaniment. Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 For more material takeaways, each attendee was presented with a commemorative quarter featuring Native Hawaiian composer, dancer, chanter and hula teacher Edith Kanakaʻole, purchased by Gold House and shared by the first Native Hawaiian to lead the White House initiative, Krystal Ka‘ai. Lucia Ruan, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2023 You might be asked to sing along with a Zen-like group of spiritual chanters. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023 Fung continued greeting people, walking away from the chanter, and remaining in the room as most of the crowd disappeared. Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022 Edith Kanaka'ole, born in 1913, was an indigenous Hawaiian composer, chanter, dancer, teacher and entertainer. Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022 The New York Post reported that an irate Dolan had directed security guards toward one teenage chanter. New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chanter
Noun
  • Among the parents challenging the law are two Jewish rabbis, a Jewish cantor, a Presbyterian reverend and a Baptist pastor.
    Jenna Sundel Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Rabbis and cantors at Adath Jeshurun Congregation, a large synagogue in suburban Minneapolis, can now offer blessings, teachings and music during wedding ceremonies for intermarrying couples, as long as the ceremonies do not feature rituals from religions other than Judaism.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The Chilean-American actress and singer did not reveal the age of her child or the identity of the father.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the top feels like the wearable intersection between multiple dreamy Chloé dresses the singer has worn in recent memory.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Musicians including psych rocker Damon Krukowski and power pop songster Ted Leo have taken to X to blast out their support.
    Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Nevertheless, the songster’s rise to stardom is mystifying.
    Quartz, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • Founding vocalist John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, was not set to join the tour.
    Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Sex Pistol’s 50th anniversary tour lineup features Jones, bassist Glen Matlock, drummer Paul Cook, and Gallows singer and new vocalist Frank Carter performing the 1977 punk classic Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols in its entirety, including other tracks from the band’s catalog.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Chanter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chanter. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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