Stentor

[ sten-tawr ]

noun

1. (in the Iliad ) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
2. (lowercase) a person having a very loud or powerful voice.
3. (lowercase) a trumpet-shaped, ciliate protozoan of the genus Stentor.

stentor

¹

/ ˈstɛntɔː /

noun

1. a person with an unusually loud voice
2. any trumpet-shaped protozoan of the genus Stentor, having a ciliated spiral feeding funnel at the wider end: phylum Ciliophora (ciliates)

Stentor

²

/ ˈstɛntɔː /

noun

1. Greek myth a Greek herald with a powerful voice who died after he lost a shouting contest with Hermes, herald of the gods

Word History and Origins

Origin of Stentor¹

C19: after Stentor

Example Sentences

The old man stood up, shouted an order in the voice of a Stentor, and waved his hand.

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Nay, but he could not; he lay in chains with a gag in his mouth, that might have smothered the voice of Stentor.

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Every man is like "Stentor of the brazen voice," whose shout, as Homer says in the Iliad, "was as the shout of fifty men."

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Stentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.

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The Stentor, from its location below the alga, could not reach the starch grains without altering its position.

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