the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers and parts of prayers designed to be performed as solos.
an official whose duty is to lead the singing in a cathedral or in a collegiate or parish church; a precentor.
Eddie Edward Israel Iskovitz, 1892–1964, U.S. singer and entertainer.
Georg 1845–1918, German mathematician, born in Russia.
Also called: chazan. Judaism a man employed to lead synagogue services, esp to traditional modes and melodies
Christianity the leader of the singing in a church choir
1530–40; < Latin: singer, equivalent to can ( ere ) to sing + -tor -tor
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
They were performed at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach is buried and where he worked as a cantor for 27 years.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
They were also performed for the first time in 320 years at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach is buried and served as a cantor for 27 years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
“For the life of me, I’m not going to cry,” the cantor said before Friday evening services in the stained-glass-filled Temple Beth Sholom.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
She also attended a Catholic elementary school and was a cantor at the church across the street, she said in a 2013 interview with Nylon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Meyer Mossel, he told us afterward, had been cantor in the synagogue in Amsterdam.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Documents in the files revealed his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, had a plan in 2013 "to buy a prince", as Andriesz puts it, and exploit Andrew's contacts with wealthy individuals and sovereign institutions.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He knew, though, that Cantor Fitzgerald executives preferred to use initials rather than full names in their emails.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The new letter to Cantor Fitzgerald says the commerce secretary has “refused to provide answers,” leading to a broader inquiry that includes the firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The letter requested information about how Cantor was selected for the assignment and any fees it collected for its role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
It would be little comfort to Cantor that his work was the foundation of a whole new branch of mathematics: set theory.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
