Stentor
(in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
(lowercase) a person having a very loud or powerful voice.
(lowercase) a trumpet-shaped, ciliate protozoan of the genus Stentor.
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How to use Stentor in a sentence
The old man stood up, shouted an order in the voice of a Stentor, and waved his hand.
The Norsemen in the West | R.M. BallantyneNay, but he could not; he lay in chains with a gag in his mouth, that might have smothered the voice of Stentor.
Quintus Claudius, Volume 1 of 2 | Ernst EcksteinEvery man is like "Stentor of the brazen voice," whose shout, as Homer says in the Iliad, "was as the shout of fifty men."
The Irish on the Somme | Michael MacDonaghStentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.
The Stentor, from its location below the alga, could not reach the starch grains without altering its position.
The Dawn of Reason | James Weir
British Dictionary definitions for stentor (1 of 2)
/ (ˈstɛntɔː) /
a person with an unusually loud voice
any trumpet-shaped protozoan of the genus Stentor, having a ciliated spiral feeding funnel at the wider end: phylum Ciliophora (ciliates)
Origin of stentor
1British Dictionary definitions for Stentor (2 of 2)
/ (ˈstɛntɔː) /
Greek myth a Greek herald with a powerful voice who died after he lost a shouting contest with Hermes, herald of the gods
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