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  Stentor

  noun

  (in theIliad ) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
• stentor
  stentor

  noun

  a person with an unusually loud voice

Stentor

American  

[sten-tawr] / ˈstɛn tɔr /

noun

1. (in theIliad ) 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.

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stentor ¹ British  

/ 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)

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Stentor ² British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of stentor

C19: after _Stentor

Example Sentences

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This map by Stentor Danielson is particularly funny, he’s got The Realm of Quarantine, The Seeing Stone of Zoom, The Temple of the Red and Black God, which I have to assume is Netflix.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2022

But if the voice is the voice of Stentor, the hands are the hands of B. F. Keith.

From Time Magazine Archive

At such times, like the brazen-throated Greek warrior Stentor, his voice is "as loud as fifty other men."

From Time Magazine Archive

When the corn was dry enough to crib, we hitched up Siren and Stentor to the wagon and had them in the field by daylight.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Dad turned Stentor away from the worrisome scene in the railroad yard.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election day.

From Time Magazine Archive

John Taber, the man with the voice of a stentor, said he saw the way to slash $9 billion from the federal budget.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the moment for which millions of radio listeners, to whom he had become the convention's stentor, had stayed up all night.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was obliged to shout at the top of her voice, though she was close to Mr. Hammond's elbow, for that shrill screaming wind would have drowned the voice of a stentor.

From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

At that moment Fred recognized him as Sut Simpson, the scout, whose voice rang out as startling and clear as that of a stentor.

From In the Pecos Country / Lieutenant R. H. Jayne by Ellis, Edward Sylvester