chaunt

[ chawnt, chahnt ]

noun

1. an obsolete variant of chant.

chaunt

/ tʃɔːnt /

noun

1. a less common variant of chant

Derived Forms

• ˈchaunter, 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

What kind of mother was she, anyway, letting two little boys spend all their time at Chaunt, so far away and not even there.

From The New Yorker