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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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Stentor1

C19: after Stentor
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Stentor, 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.

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