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Singer.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.English : variant of Sanger 2, in fact a Middle English recoinage from the verb sing(en) ‘to sing’.German : variant of Sänger (see Sanger 1) in the sense of ‘poet’.Isaac Merrit Singer, inventor of the eponymous sewing machine, was born in 1811 in Pittstown, NY, the son of German immigrant Adam Reisinger. He had five wives and fathered 24 children. Singer, who incorporated his company as the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1864, left a fortune worth $13 million to his various heirs.
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English : unexplained.Americanized form of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Solovei, ornamental name or occupational nickname for a cantor in a synagogue, from Russian solovei ‘nightingale’.
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English : variant spelling of Canter.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kantor.French (Picardy) : learned form of chantre ‘singer’. Compare Canter 1.
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, chief or king of a district or division.
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Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.
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Of or belonging to a cantor.
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Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.
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A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.