cantor
pronunciation
How to pronounce cantor in British English:
UK [ˈkæntɔ:(r)]
How to pronounce cantor in American English:
US ['kæntɔr]
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- Noun:
- the musical director of a choir
- 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
Word Origin
- cantor (n.)
- 1530s, "church song-leader," from Latin cantor "singer, poet, actor," agent noun from past participle stem of canere "to sing" (see chant (v.)). Applied in English to the Hebrew chazan from 1893.
Example
- 1. Lower manhattan , like cantor fitzgerald , suffered a devastating loss on that day .
- 2. Mr cantor insists he come to the table with spending cuts .
- 3. Cantor 's market is based on an existing predictive market , the hollywood stock exchange , which uses play money .
- 4. Along with mr cantor he signed up to mr boehner 's offer on tax revenues , dipping his hands in the same fiscal gore .
- 5. Computability of turing machine on cantor sets .