Cantor Definition

kăntər
cantors
noun
cantors
The Jewish religious official who leads the musical part of a service.
American Heritage
A church choir leader; precentor.
Webster's New World
A singer of liturgical solos in a synagogue, who leads the congregation in prayer; hazan.
Webster's New World

Singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony.

The cantor's place in church is on the right of the choir.
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Noun

Singular:
cantor
Plural:
cantors

Origin of Cantor

  • From Latin cantor, agent noun from perfect passive participle cantus, from verb canere (“to sing”), + agent suffix -or.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin singer from canere to sing kan- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cantor Sentence Examples

  • Reading that little lot makes a moderately confident cantor feel thoroughly inadequate.

  • In that year he matriculated at the university, and took lessons in composition from Theodor Weinlig, cantor at the Thomasschule.

  • Cantor and Dedekind were of the greatest importance in the progress of the subject.

  • Cantor's Vorlesungen fiber Geschichte der Mathematik is the standard authority.

  • Moritz Cantor suspects the influence of Diophantine methods, more particularly in the Hindu solutions of indeterminate equations, where certain technical terms are, in all probability, of Greek origin.

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Words Starting With

CCACAN

Words Ending With

RORTOR

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Words Starting With C and Ending With R

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With R