Stentor
noun
(in theIliad ) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
Stentor
American
[sten-tawr]
/ ˈstɛn tɔr /
noun
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(in theIliad ) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
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(lowercase) a person having a very loud or powerful voice.
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(lowercase) a trumpet-shaped, ciliate protozoan of the genus Stentor.
stentor
1
British
/ ˈstɛntɔː /
noun
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a person with an unusually loud voice
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any trumpet-shaped protozoan of the genus Stentor, having a ciliated spiral feeding funnel at the wider end: phylum Ciliophora (ciliates)
Stentor
2
British
/ ˈstɛntɔː /
noun
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
At such times, like the brazen-throated Greek warrior Stentor, his voice is "as loud as fifty other men."
From Time Magazine Archive
But if the voice is the voice of Stentor, the hands are the hands of B. F. Keith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stentor shied at the city lights and threw his tail.
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
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
Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election day.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, my lad, what’s your business?” he inquired in the voice of a stentor, and with the beaming smile of an elderly cherub.
From Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Their mouths opened wide to the salty dust, and they roared with great-lunged humor, the stentor note of Tall Mose Bledsoe–Colonel Bledsoe of the State of Pike–far and away in the van of the chorus.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
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