Usually means: Melodic intonation of sacred texts.
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  1. cantillation: Merriam-Webster
  2. cantillation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cantillation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cantillation: Vocabulary.com
  5. cantillation: Wordnik
  6. cantillation: Wiktionary
  7. cantillation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Cantillation, cantillation: Dictionary.com
  9. Cantillation (ensemble), Cantillation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Cantillation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. cantillation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. cantillation: Rhymezone
  13. Cantillation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cantillation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. cantillation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cantillation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cantillation: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See cantillate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cantillation)

noun:  The intonation of a sentence, especially in Hebrew script, codified by marks which are read as sequences of musical pitches.
noun:  Chanting.

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