Thesaurus results for CHANTS

chants 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of chant

as in sings

to utter in musical or drawn out tones the frustrated crowd at the rock concert started to chant, "We want the show to start!"

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as in vocalizes

to produce musical sounds with the voice monks chanting fervently at matins

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chants

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noun

plural of chant

as in choruses

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Recent Examples of chants

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The ballroom at the Westin Perimeter North is packed with people sporadically breaking out in Rick Jackson chants from time to time. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 16 June 2026 As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds. — Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026 The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025 On Saturday nights, when the Jewish Sabbath ends, Elia chants the zemirot, the traditional table hymns. — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025 The entire group chants the name of the triumphant Elio and Clone Elio accepts the applause. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025

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SpaceX sings on soaring AI costs watch now Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.

— Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
Mike Clarke, who always sings the praises of the camaraderie that exists among the businesses in small town Old Wethersfield, said the creamery does something fun every year to coincide with the play.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of sings

Verb

The clip, filmed from a few feet away, shows the saxophone player continuing unfazed as the Dalmatian raises its snout and vocalizes in rhythm.

— Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
As the sweetly melodic ballad tapers, a gentle beat kicks in and Carey vocalizes words of religious praise over a syncopated coda for the last two minutes, her five-octave voice punctuating her patented melismatic style.

— Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025

Definition of vocalizes

Noun

Full of big moments, rousing choruses, barstool sing-alongs, and even a few weepers, Stages is an album calibrated to the live experience.

— Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026
There are no memorable choruses, hooky instrumentals passages, or spellbinding solos, all which have been a part of the band’s sonic identity, including on Life Is But a Dream… to an extent.

— Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of choruses

Verb

The sight of the lone rider desperately trying to hold on as the crowd roars them towards the line is magical, despite such brave attempts rarely being successful.

— Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
But they were outnumbered three or four to one by Argentina fans, who drowned them out with long flat roars whenever their team repelled a Spanish shot, or bundled a player off the pitch.

— Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Definition of roars

Noun

From Andy Grammer’s feet-thumping anthems to the traditional dance of the Irish rolling hills, this year’s Harris Center for the Arts lineup is sure to entertain.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026
In that atmosphere, having distinct tub-thumping anthems made perfect sense.

— George Edwards, New York Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of anthems

Noun

In the streaming music world, having access to all your favorite tunes and ditties is integral.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026
But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 May 2026

Definition of ditties

Noun

Much of Tulu literature and folklore has been preserved through oral tradition, especially epic ballads called paddanas.

— Andrew Pereira, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Aug. 2026
Those digital Mellotrons balanced against Wilson’s dry 2000s alt-rock production cast Åkerfeldt’s ballads into a searching, uncanny drift at the outskirts of the metal landscape.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 19 July 2026

Definition of ballads

Noun

Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026

Definition of serenades

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