2. Adjective. (context: of a sound) Produced by a megaphone ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a voice) loud and echoey, as if produced by a megaphone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Megaphonic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaphonic
Literary usage of Megaphonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"Several individuals can be examined at once by duplicating the ear tubes or by
substituting a megaphonic horn for the ..."
2. The Bookman (1910)
"Walt Whitman got one year's big whiff of the \Vest and it transformed him, made
him vastly panoramic and megaphonic. Mark Twain, like Lincoln, ..."
3. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"For one thing, by the Fifth Century, tragic actors wore megaphonic masks, and
heightened their stature with high-soled boots or buskins. ..."
4. Attic & Elizabethan Tragedy by Lauchlan MacLean Watt (1908)
"of the character typified.1 In this latter, also, a megaphonic arrangement was
used, whereby the words of the play were made to resound throughout the vast ..."
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