Intone

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊn

Origin

From Old French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonare

Full definition of intone

Verb

1. (transitive) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
2. (transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.to intone the church service
• 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 8, But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, …
3. (intransitive) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

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