Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The Jewish religious official who leads the musical part of a service.
- n. The person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing; a precentor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Eccles., an officer whose duty is to lead the singing in a cathedral or in a collegiate or parish church; a precentor.
- n. Specifically, in Germany, the music-master in a choir-school or similar institution, or the kapellmeister of a church. See kapellmeister.
Wiktionary
- n. singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos
- n. the musical director of a choir
Etymologies
- From Latin cantor, agent noun from perfect passive participle cantus, from verb canere ("to sing"), + agent suffix -or. (Wiktionary)
- Latin, singer, from canere, to sing; see kan- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Of course cantor is making a flip-flop here, however he just scared as hell that it will be another smack down on tv like they took last Friday.”
“Bozo The Neoclown says: ten to one says eric cantor is the next cancervaturd legislator embroiled in a scandal involving a male prostitute and meth. he has that look.”
“Move the cantor from the front to the back; people don't need to be directed as if it were a protestant revival meeting”
“The cantor is likewise seized by guilt, and cries, "God, I am nothing before you!”
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“Seems like cantor is talking out of both sides of his mouth, he voted with bush 100%, now we have a huge deficet and he wants us to believe it is obama's fault.”
“Shoot at his campaign windows and blame Crist? cantor is NOT a rising star.”
“That's about to change as the high court considers a case involving a Las Vegas woman who claims she was sexually assaulted nine years ago by a man she described as a cantor at a synagogue.”
“January 27th, 2010 at 12: 35 pm tombaker says: cantor is such a snotty little liar … when matt lauer pwns you, you know you’ve hit bottom.”
“The cantor was a teenaged girl and she was a Mariah Carey wannabe.”
“A cantor is the ying to the Rabbi's yang; while the Rabbi is responsible for preaching, it is a cantor's job to lead the chanting of the Jewish service.”
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Interesting words
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great timbre
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I'd Be Honoured To Do This List
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working for a living
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