Usually means: Unaccompanied monophonic liturgical vocal music.
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  1. plainchant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plainchant: Merriam-Webster
  3. plainchant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plainchant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plainchant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plainchant: Vocabulary.com
  7. plainchant: Wordnik
  8. plainchant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plainchant: Wiktionary
  10. plainchant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plainchant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plainchant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. plainchant: Dictionary.com
  14. Plainchant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. plainchant: Rhymezone
  16. plainchant: FreeDictionary.org
  17. plainchant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. plainchant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plainchant: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Synonym of plainsong

Similar:
plainsong, Gregorian chant, plain song, organum, calliaphone, antiphonal, psalmodikon, songword, playnt, symphonia, more...

Opposite:
polyphony, harmony, counterpoint

Types:
Gregorian, Ambrosian, Gallican, Mozarabic, more...

Adjectives:
western, gregorian, medieval, liturgical, traditional, latin, early, christian, monophonic, simple, ancient

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Similar:
plainsong, Gregorian chant, plain song, organum, calliaphone, antiphonal, psalmodikon, songword, playnt, symphonia, more...

Opposite:
polyphony, harmony, counterpoint

Types:
Gregorian, Ambrosian, Gallican, Mozarabic, more...

Adjectives:
western, gregorian, medieval, liturgical, traditional, latin, early, christian, monophonic, simple, ancient



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