stentorian
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Origin of stentorian
Explanation
The adjective stentorian describes a booming voice. If you're teaching a group of unruly kids, you'll need to practice a stentorian voice to be heard above the din. The adjective stentorian comes from Greek mythology. Stentor was a herald in the Trojan War, mentioned in Homer's "Iliad." Homer wrote of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together. So anyone with a stentorian voice has a voice like the mythic Stentor. You can also use stentorian to describe a style of speaking that emphasizes boom and power.
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Stentorian tones and a confident stride broadcast her independent spirit.
From Nature • Jan. 28, 2019
Another Stentorian bawler, and even a greater nuisance in the same neighbourhood, seems to his unfortunate hearers to deal in “Cats’-meat,” though his real cry is “Cabbage-plants.”
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by Smith, John Thomas
Their stalls were in the middle of the house, and around them swept the great curve of boxes at which Undine had so often looked up in the remote Stentorian days.
From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith
But he was biding his time, and—with due respect be it said—saving his wind, and now in a Stentorian voice he ejaculated,— "The following is the oath!"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
Undine's face lit up as if a shaft of sunset had struck it through the triple-curtained windows of the Stentorian.
From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith
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