stentor
IPA: stˈɛntɝ
Root Word: Stentor
noun
- A herald in the Iliad celebrated for his loud voice.
- (astronomy) The Jovian asteroid 2146 Stentor.
- A person with a powerful or stentorian voice.
- Any protozoan of the genus Stentor.
- A part of the amplification system of a carillon.
- A howler monkey.
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Examples of "stentor" in Sentences
- Stentor Coeruleus is known to habituate to its environment.
- Stentor coeruleus specifically appears as a very large trumpet.
- He fancied himself to have a voice like the Greek herald Stentor.
- The stentor would talk into a double receiver to transmit the news.
- As in many freshwater protozoans, the 'Stentor' has a contractile vacuole.
- Stentor was lost in a launch failure on the maiden flight of the Ariane 5ECA.
- “A stentor, me ignorant broth of a boy!” cried Mrs. Tarleton, aping his brogue.
- Once more opening his mouth and shutting his eyes, and laughing like a stentor, Kit gradually backed to the door, and roared himself out.
- November 30th, 2004 at 4:39 pm i agree with stentor and mythago, and posted a response on my blog much more wordy than the succinct comments :.
- Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody.