Definition of canto

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Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano..

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Incanton :: Incanton (v. t.) To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community..
Cantoon :: Cantoon (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.
Cantor :: Cantor (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Motto :: Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim..
Grisons :: Grisons (n. pl.) The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.
Duan :: Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.
Cantoned :: Cantoned (a.) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster..
Canton :: Canton (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops..
Cantonal :: Cantonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.
Cantoning :: Cantoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canto.
Cantoris :: Cantoris (a.) Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall..
Canton :: Canton (n.) A small community or clan.
Decani :: Decani (a.) Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side..
Vaudois :: Vaudois (n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud..
Cantoral :: Cantoral (a.) Of or belonging to a cantor.
Fit :: Fit (n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus..
Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melod.
Canton :: Canton (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement..
Senate :: Senate (n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons..
Sail :: Sail (n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton..
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