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Meanings of cantor in English
Chief singer, and usually instructor, employed at a church, a cathedral or monastery.
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Spanish
cantor Person who leads people in singing or sometimes in prayer.
Related terms
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.
Usage of cantor in English
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Millie said she liked the Jewish cantor and the Irish Catholic policeman.
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There it was again, what the cantor had said and admired, then!
3
So the cantor found himself all alone in a strange world.
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The pall bearers came, the minister and the cantor with the students' choir.
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The first of these famous pædagogues was the cantor, worthy Mr. Michael Kordé.
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Amen: Credo III Plainsong sung by the cantor, vocal ensemble and congregation Amen.
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He was born in Buffalo almost 50 years ago; his father was a cantor.
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I too, am first cantor and professor of plain song.
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He might now regard the cantor house, which was quickly gained, as his own.
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Jacques Offenbach was born in 1819 in Cologne, the son of a Jewish cantor.
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I started as a cantor right after the war.
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My husband has one of the finest cantor voices of any temple in the city.
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The grooms smashed their wine glasses underfoot as a cantor sang age-old blessings in Hebrew.
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When the cantor steps forward and sings, the music is the melody of sorrow and regret.
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While "town cantor" in Antomir he had received the highest salary ever paid there.
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The cantor began to shiver as with ague.
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