Usually means: Higher melody above the tenor.
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  1. discant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. discant: Collins English Dictionary
  4. discant: Vocabulary.com
  5. discant: Wordnik
  6. discant: Wiktionary
  7. discant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. discant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Discant, discant: Dictionary.com
  10. Discant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Discant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. discant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. discant: Rhymezone
  14. Discant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. discant: Free Dictionary
  16. discant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. discant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discant: Legal dictionary

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  1. discant: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discant: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (discant)

noun:  (music) Alternative form of descant [A lengthy discourse on a subject.]
verb:  (music) Alternative form of descant [(intransitive) To discuss at length.]

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