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单词 stentorian
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stentorianadj.

Brit. /stɛnˈtɔːrɪən/, U.S. /stɛnˈtɔriən/
Etymology: < Stentor n.2 + -ian suffix. Compare Greek Στεντόρειος, Latin Stentoreus.
1. Of the voice: Loud, like that of Stentor (see Stentor n.2 1); very loud and far-reaching; hence, of uttered sounds, song, laughter and the like.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > loud or resonant
loud971
highlyOE
stithc1000
strongOE
steepc1275
stiff1377
strengthfula1382
gross1398
stentorious15..
open-mouthed?1533
wildc1550
preclare?1553
strainable1569
trolling1581
main1582
wide-mouthed1589
full-mouthed1594
wide-mouth?c1599
stentorian1606
trump-like1609
stentorophonic1678
strenuous1680
open-mouth1702
stentorial1754
stentoronic1762
full-throated1820
trumpety1822
Stentor1837
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 56 My Stentorian Song,..Shall brim be heard from India even to Spayne.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 48 Whose Stentorian sound Doth far and wide o'r all the world redound.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Stentorian-voice, a voice so loud and strong, as the voice of one hundred men.
1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 31 The Mighty Talkers..who Conjure down the whole Modest Part of the Creation with a Stentorian noise.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi vii. 169 An uproarious dance follows, accompanied with stentorian song.
1872 C. Gibbon For King xxxviii ‘Hold’ exclaimed the general, in stentorian tones.
figurative.1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem ii. 77 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles What a lowd and Stentorian untruth is here uttered by a foule mouthed Iesuit?
2. That utters stentorian sounds. stentorian trumpet = stentorophonic adj. trumpet.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > speaking trumpet or tube
trunk1546
speaking-trumpet1671
stentorophonic tube1686
whispering-trumpet1688
stentorian trumpet1690
trumpet1696
voice pipe1839
voice tube1839
whispering-tube1857
speaking-tube1889
megaphone1896
meg1937
loudhailer1941
bullhorn1955
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > loud or resonant > having loud voice
routing1567
full-mouthed1594
deep-moutheda1616
full-mouth1624
well-lunged1642
flounder-mouthed1663
bull-voiced1837
loud-voiced1850
shoutya1859
stentorian1875
trumpet-tongued1880
bull-throated1888
trumpet-mouthed1895
bull-mouthed1896
trumpet-voiced1902
1690 Pagan Prince xli. 119 Setting a Stentorian Trumpet to his Mouth, [he] call'd out to the Belgians in a most Terrible and Astonishing Tone.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 27 An invitation issuing from stentorian lungs to ‘Step hinside and see’ [etc.].
1878 H. W. Bates Central Amer. in Stanford Compend. Geogr. etc. 187 Here [i.e. in Trinidad] we meet, among the monkey tribe, with..the stentorian Howlers (Mycetes).

Derivatives

stenˈtorianly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adverb] > with raised voice or loudly
loud971
highc1225
on highc1225
highlyc1275
mainlyc1300
with full (also open) mouthc1300
alouda1325
greatly1340
ahigha1400
loudlya1400
on or upon heightc1405
on, upon (the) loftc1420
on loudc1450
in heightc1480
big1556
to the loudesta1616
full-mouthedly1681
in loud1682
stentoriously1685
trumpet-mouthed1767
at the top of one's throat1819
at the top of one's throat1819
out loud1821
stentorianly1880
1880 Mrs. C. Reade Brown Hand & White ix ‘We are going to smoke’, [said she] stentorianly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1606
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