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
Dad had hitched Siren and Stentor to the rock sled, so they’d be ready to drag the carcasses up to the fire.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
We’d gone to the funeral in the spring wagon drawn by Siren and Stentor.
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
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
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
Police! police!" he cried; and at last the detectives who came to seize him rushed in, and Colonel Clifford, too, with the voice of a stentor, cried, "The law!
From A Perilous Secret by Reade, Charles
"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 A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène
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