Stentor

[sten-tawr]

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.

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

There is something else interesting about their data, which I encourage you to examine for yourself: it sure looks like stentors have personalities.

From Scientific American

Each one had a spiral wreath of cilia, with a mouth situated like those of the stentors, hereafter to be described, but none of them became stationary, and in a few days they all disappeared.

From Project Gutenberg

Uncle Dave seemed to become a giant in strength, his voice that of a stentor, and his manner fierce, as soon as his flock went into action.

From Project Gutenberg

But now, with the young stentor's uncouth roar of joy, shaking the infant settlement from center to circumference, snapped was the Manitou spell, broken the Manitou dream.

From Project Gutenberg

"Hurrah!" cried Croustillac, in the voice of a stentor, and he accompanied this Muscovite exclamation by throwing into the air his old fur cap.

From Project Gutenberg