Stentorian - plus, 17 Red, White, and Blue Political Terms

WORD OF THE DAY July 3, 2020

stentorian   adjective | sten-TOR-ee-un   Definition   : extremely loud   Scroll down for more about stentorian     TRENDING NOW: protean capricious defund j'accuse SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   17 Red, White, and Blue Political Terms   When Speaking of Age Ranges   'Pigeonhole': A History   The Words of the Week - 6/26/20       WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   A More Exception(al) Quiz   Which of these things doesn't belong?     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try! TAKE ME THERE       Did You Know?   The Greek herald Stentor was known for having a voice that came through loud and clear. In fact, in the Iliad, Homer described Stentor as a man whose voice was as loud as that of fifty men together. Stentor's powerful voice made him a natural choice for delivering announcements and proclamations to the assembled Greek army during the Trojan War, and it also made his name a byword for any person with a loud, strong voice. Both the noun stentor and the related adjective stentorian pay homage to the big-voiced warrior, and both have been making noise in English since the early 17th century.     Examples of STENTORIAN   "'Let it Be' … was uncannily similar to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' not only in sentiment, but even to its churchy flavor. 'They're both very gospely songs,' [David] Wills says. 'I think 1968 was a very turbulent year … and in 1969 there was this life-affirming achievement of going to the moon. So I think that was in the zeitgeist, those stentorian, stately gospel piano-based songs.'" — Jim Beckerman, NorthJersey.com, 14 May 2020   "'Laughing together is as close as you can get without touching,' I wrote in my first book…. Laughter has always been the best medicine; I wasn't exactly making any boldly original statement almost three decades ago. I wasn't expecting a MacArthur grant. But what I expected even less … was that the not-touching part of my line would eventually be part of a stentorian, global prescription to combat COVID-19." — Gina Barreca, The Bedford (Pennsylvania) Gazette, 23 Mar 2020   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of stentorian: s _ _ _ ro _ _.   VIEW THE ANSWER             MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES         TRENDING NOW         WORDS AT PLAY     FOLLOW US:

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