English Explanatory Dictionary

cantion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A song, poem or incantation.

Word forms

cantion cantions

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cantiō, from canere (“to sing”). Doublet of chanson and canzone. By surface analysis, Latin cant- + -ion.

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