Today's Word "stentorian"
Published in Vocabulary
stentorian \sten-TOR-ee-uhn\ (adjective) - Extremely loud.
"I was just near the large gateway, however, when a most stentorian voice shouted out, 'Halt, who goes there?'" -- Frederick George Scott, 'The Great War As I Saw It'
Stentorian comes from Stentor, a Greek herald in the Trojan War. According to Homer's Iliad, his voice was as loud as that of fifty men combined.
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