chaunt

American  

[chawnt, chahnt] / tʃɔnt, tʃɑnt /

noun

1. an obsolete variant of chant.

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chaunt British  

/ tʃɔːnt /

noun

1. a less common variant of chant

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Other Word Forms

• chaunter noun

Example Sentences

Recently, the South African photographer Roger Ballen constructed one of his unsettling dioramas for Joy Williams’s “Chaunt,” the story of a grieving mother and her stay at a remote asylum.

From The New Yorker

A photograph made for the short story “Chaunt,” by Joy Williams.

From The New Yorker

The driver of the car that struck them as they were on their bicycles, returning on the long, flat road from Chaunt, was a retired thoracic surgeon.

From The New Yorker

No one could understand why she had allowed two small boys to go to Chaunt again and again.

From The New Yorker

Nor would she be able to state with any surety whether it was Billy who had discovered the church at Chaunt or whether the boys had discovered it together.

From The New Yorker