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STENTORIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stentorian mean?
• STENTORIAN (adjective)
The adjective STENTORIAN has 1 sense:
1. (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant
Familiarity information: STENTORIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant
Synonyms:
booming; stentorian
Similar:
full ((of sound) having marked deepness and body)
Derivation:
stentor (a speaker with an unusually loud voice)
Context examples
“Cut the ropes! Fair play! Wait till the rain stops!” roared a stentorian voice behind me, and I saw that it came from the big man with the bottle-green coat.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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!"
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Some of the more observant of the crowd had glanced suspiciously at this advancing figure, but the majority had not observed him at all until he reined up his horse upon a knoll which overlooked the amphitheatre, and in a stentorian voice announced that he represented the Custos rotulorum of His Majesty’s county of Sussex, that he proclaimed this assembly to be gathered together for an illegal purpose, and that he was commissioned to disperse it by force, if necessary.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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