Synonyms for cantor

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kan-ter, -tawr

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæn tər, -tɔr

Définition of cantor

Origin : 1530s, "church song-leader," from Latin cantor "singer, poet, actor," agent noun from past participle stem of canere "to sing" (see chant (v.)). Applied in English to the Hebrew chazan from 1893.

noun church leader

Example sentences :

"You hear what young Mr Cantor has said," continued the lawyer.
Extract from : « Cousin Henry » by Anthony Trollope

"Joe, ye shall be made to sit out in the kitchen; ye shall," said Cantor the father.
Extract from : « Cousin Henry » by Anthony Trollope

"I know'd it," said young Cantor, clenching his fist almost in her face.
Extract from : « Cousin Henry » by Anthony Trollope

"I'll swear that's one of my pupils, he is so pugnacious," thought the cantor to himself.
Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai

We went up the river as far as Cantor (some five hundred miles).
Extract from : « A Book of Discovery » by Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge

I asked the natives of Cantor about the road to the gold country.
Extract from : « A Book of Discovery » by Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge

He might now regard the cantor house, which was quickly gained, as his own.
Extract from : « Barbara Blomberg, Complete » by Georg Ebers

The cantor was one of the most important officials in the monastery.
Extract from : « English Monastic Life » by Abbot Gasquet

What would you have done to them if Mr. Cantor had not interceded, Judge Bruce?
Extract from : « In Pawn » by Ellis Parker Butler

Also issued as Cantor Lectures in one pamphlet, same society.
Extract from : « Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries » by John Cotton Dana

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