Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chanticleer

/t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.89 in modern English

Syllables: chan-ti-cleer
IPA: /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.

Archaic; Literary

verb

To make the crowing sound of a cock.

verb

To crow in exultation.

Example Sentences

"When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…]."
"It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…]."

Etymology

] From Middle English Chauntecleer, from Old French Chantecler (modern French Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”). Attested in English since 1250–1300.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: Chauntecleer, Chantecler

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/
British English: /ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

chanticleers (plural) chanticleers (present, singular) chanticleering (participle, present) chanticleered (participle, past) chanticleered (past)

Questions

How do you pronounce chanticleer?: The recorded pronunciation is /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/.
What does chanticleer mean?: A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
Where does chanticleer come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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