单词 | stentorian |
释义 | stentorianadj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 2. That utters stentorian sounds. stentorian trumpet = stentorophonic adj. trumpet. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1606 |
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