Usually means: Vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment.
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  1. cantata: Merriam-Webster
  2. cantata: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cantata: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cantata: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cantata: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cantata, cantata: Wordnik
  7. cantata: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cantata: Wiktionary
  9. cantata: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cantata: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cantata: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cantata: Dictionary.com
  13. cantata: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cantata (Stravinsky), Cantata (film), Cantata (software), Cantata: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cantata: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cantata: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cantata: Rhymezone
  18. Cantata: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cantata: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cantata: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cantata: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cantata: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cantata: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cantata: Encyclopedia

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noun:  (music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.

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