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Stentor

noun

A speaker with an unusually loud voice.

The mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.

Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor.

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"Stentor" Quotes from Famous Books

... yells he can outbellow Stentor, And roars and roars, "All men are animals," He has slipped by almost his ninetieth year And bent senility shakes his weak step. Now three hairs only cling to his smooth head, And he sees what a night-owl sees at dawn. The snot is dripping from his frosty nose, And stringed ...

— An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams • Pierre Nicole

... yelled,—without premeditation, without cooperation, each man for himself, Yaai, Yai ... Yaai, Yaai, Yai.... Yaai! That cry was to be heard on more than two thousand battlefields. It lasts with the voice of Stentor, and with the horn of Roland. It has gone down to ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

Words linked to "Stentor" : ciliophoran, utterer, genus Stentor, Greek mythology, stentorian, verbaliser, ciliate, ciliated protozoan, mythical being, verbalizer, speaker, talker