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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A song, especially a French one.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A song. Originally, a short poem in a simple, natural style, in stanzas called couplets, each usually accompanied by a refrain, intended to be sung. Later, any short lyric poem, and the music to which it is set.
  2. n. A finger-ring with an inscription. See posy-ring.
  3. n. The motto on a ring.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any song with French words, but more specifically classic, lyric-driven French songs.
  2. n. obsolete A religious song.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A song.

Etymologies

  1. From the French, chanson ("song") (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, from Latin cantiō, cantiōn-, from cantus, past participle of cantāre, to sing; see chant. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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