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Definition of Stentor
1. Noun. A speaker with an unusually loud voice.
2. Noun. The mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.
3. Noun. Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor.
Definition of Stentor
1. n. A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.
Definition of Stentor
1. Noun. a person with a powerful or stentorian voice ¹
2. Noun. a protozoan of the genus ''Stentor''[ ¹
3. Noun. a part of the amplification system of a carillon[ ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stentor
1. a person having a very loud voice [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stentor
Literary usage of Stentor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings (1904)
"As the best-known case we may take the behavior of stentor. ... When a quiet,
extended stentor is stimulated by lightly touching it or the support to which ..."
2. Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings (1904)
"As the best-known case we may take the behavior of stentor. ... When a quiet,
extended stentor is stimulated by lightly touching it or the support to which ..."
3. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"REGENERATION OF PROPORTIONATE STRUCTURES IN stentor. TH MORGAN. THE important
results of Gruber and of Balbiani on the power of regeneration of pieces of ..."
4. The Soul of Man: An Investigation of the Facts of Physiological and by Paul Carus (1891)
"Balbiani, who repeated the experiments of Gruber upon stentor coeruleus, shows
in the adjoined diagram the renewal of the whole individual from any part if ..."
5. The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life by William Emerson Ritter (1919)
"The full mischievousness of this sort of limitation is seen only by looking a
little more into details. . Development of stentor as an Example of Protozoan ..."
6. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"In this he was very successful, stentor io one, moreover, who visited the famous "Camp
... earning him the unique title of "stentor of the Yosemite. ..."
7. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"... he was glad to find there wns any thing in France that was agreeable to Sir
stentor. To this compliment the knight replied, with an air of ..."
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