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

Verb

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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chants

Verb

Emcee/ringleader duties in the shows were mostly split between frequent guest star John Stamos and Love’s son, Christian Love (who sings lead on numbers formerly sung by the late Carl Wilson).

— Chris Willman, Variety, 23 July 2026
In the film, Scott plays a Greek bard who sings about Odysseus’ victories in the Trojan War.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 July 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

Some 54 million Americans were participating in choirs and community choruses before the pandemic, according to a 2019 choral impact study.

— Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2026
Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, the band became gay icons overnight.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of choruses

Verb

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
Ski and Snowboard at Big Bear Mountain Resort During winter, Big Bear Mountain Resort roars to life, with skiing and snowboarding as well as snow tubing on offer.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026

Definition of roars

Noun

From the fragmented breakup anthems to the formulaic moodboard fodder, nothing on Steve Lacy’s new album seems to come naturally.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 July 2026
Several songs and albums connected to the sport — or which have simply become anthems played in stadiums, pubs and viewing parties — surge on the British charts this week.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 22 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

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
His theory—that the poems must have been patched together much later from various ballads—was not universally accepted.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 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

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