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Stentorian

//stɛnˈtɔː.ɹi.ən// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Loud, powerful, booming, suitable for giving speeches to large crowds.

    "Shouts of laughter were elicited, smart biddings drawn out, from the whispers of a timid miss, to the stentorian voice of a fox-hunting squire, and not a few fracas from parties either contending for a supposed prize, or disclaiming their chance for it,..."

  2. 2
    Rare form of stentorian. form-of, rare

    "Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh."

  3. 3
    Stern, authoritarian; demanding of respect. broadly
Adjective
  1. 1
    (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant wordnet

Etymology

From Stentor + -ian, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr). Stentor was the herald of the Greek forces in the Iliad, noted for his loud voice.

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