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Voice Stentorian Greek Extremely Loud Deep Richness Sound

word stentorian
definition Extremely loud, often with especially deep richness of sound.
eg_sentence Even without a microphone, his stentorian voice was clearly audible in the last rows of the auditorium.
explanation Stentor, like Hector, was a warrior in the Iliad, but on the Greek side. His unusually powerful voice (Homer calls him “brazen-voiced”—that is, with a voice like a brass instrument) made him the natural choice for delivering announcements and proclamations to the assembled Greek army, in an era when there was no way of artificially increasing the volume of a voice.
IPA stentorian*

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