stentor

n. 声音洪亮的人 [医] 喇叭虫属

词形变化

stentors 复数 stentors

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person with a powerful or stentorian voice.

    1609, Ben Jonson, Epicoene Act IV, Scene II, 1989, Johanna Procter (editor), The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson, Volume 1, page 381, Rogues, hellhounds, Stentors, out of my doors, you sons of noise and tumult, begot on an ill May Day, or when the galley-foist is afloat to Westminster!

  2. 2.

    Any protozoan of the genus Stentor.

  3. 3.

    A part of the amplification system of a carillon.

  4. 4.

    A howler monkey.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 7

speaker talker ciliate ciliophoran utterer verbaliser verbalizer

词源

Borrowed from Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), the name of a herald in the Iliad who had a loud voice.

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