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say it: STEN-tur
stentor is a noun meaning "a speaker with an unusually loud voice". It is pronounced /ˈstɛntɚ/ — STEN-tur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a speaker with an unusually loud voice
the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes
Greek mythology
any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stentor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.