Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely loud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling the voice of Stentor (see
stentor , etymology); extremely loud or powerful in sound. - Able to utter a very loud sound: as, stentorian lungs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a voice
Loud ,powerful ,booming , suitable for givingspeeches tolarge crowds.
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- adjective used of the voice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His face blazed with wrath, and he shouted in stentorian tones that echoed down the universe, "I shall deduct the cost of those cuffs from your wages!"
Chapter 25 2010
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BURGLARY! in stentorian tones every time a cat crosses the yard.
i walk where the bottles break and the blacktop still comes back for more truepenny 2008
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When I asked Zhao Yao whether his life was different now, he began in stentorian tones — “The impact of my involvement in the show has been profound” — and then started laughing and said, “I am taking the tone promoted by the show, enthusiastic and assertive!”
Win in China! 2007
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When I asked Zhao Yao whether his life was different now, he began in stentorian tones — “The impact of my involvement in the show has been profound” — and then started laughing and said, “I am taking the tone promoted by the show, enthusiastic and assertive!”
Win in China! 2007
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His face blazed with wrath, and he shouted in stentorian tones that echoed down the universe, "I shall deduct the cost of those cuffs from your wages!"
Chapter 25 1908
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He then led us through a narrow, dark alley underneath a house, where I dismounted, as a lama called out in stentorian voice,
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"How do you like London?" said a loud voice, in the tones that are sometimes called stentorian, and Patty suddenly realised that her host was addressing her.
Patty's Friends Carolyn Wells 1902
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When, therefore, he was exhorted to rap on the little girl's door, he gave sundry noisy, gleeful thumps, – pounding with both fists, and alternating with a rhythmical kick of the cowhide boots, calling out in stentorian tones: Come, little un, – time you 's up.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Lock the door to mom’s basement, firmly grasp your testicles, and feel them grow as you recite it out loud in stentorian tones.
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"Just one moment," called a stentorian voice in the gallery.
The Landloper Holman Day 1900
whichbe commented on the word stentorian
Extremely loud. (from Phrontistery)
May 23, 2008
super-logos commented on the word stentorian
Stentor: a Greek herald in the Trojan War. It is a solid, manly word indeed.
August 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word stentorian
Really logos? That's cool! I never heard that before.
August 16, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word stentorian
Also, a microscopic protozoan which bears a marked resemblance to a trumpet.
In fact, Stentor is not mentioned in the Iliad but is only referenced when Hera speaks in Book V, 'with a voice like Stentor, as loud as fifty other men'.
August 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word stentorian
Is it like a Cape Horn voice? *ponders*
August 16, 2008