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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

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 said he thought we’d give Stentor a stretch and run on into Montezuma.

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

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

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

"Well, I am sure, you can manage the whole troupe with that stentor voice of yours," replied Marianne.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

You may think that I have odd taste; but I love Bobby's stentor laugh, and Tou Tou's ear-piercing yells.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda