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CANTILLATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

Example:

The rabbi chanted a prayer

Synonyms:

cantillate; chant; intonate; intone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "cantillate" is one way to...):

sing (produce tones with the voice)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cantillate"):

singsong (speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will cantillate the duet

Derivation:

cantillation (liturgical chanting)

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