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stentorian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stentorian \Sten*to"ri*an\, a. [L. stentoreus; cf. Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of powerful voice," c.1600, from Stentor, legendary Greek herald in the Trojan War, whose voice (described in the "Iliad") was as loud as 50 men. His name is from Greek stenein "groan, moan," from PIE imitative root *(s)ten-, source of Old English þunor "thunder."
Wiktionary
a. (of a voice) loud, powerful, booming, suitable for giving speeches to large crowds.
WordNet
adj. used of the voice [syn: booming]
Wikipedia
Stentorian is a heavy metal band from Bangladesh formed in the early 2001. Stentorian released one commercially successful album Protimuhurtey in 2005 and several commercially successful singles. Their most popular songs include "Adrissho Juddho", "Bishonno Adhaar", "Bidrohi", "Jolosrot", "Anubhuti", "Mone pore na" and most recently "Chhobi". Stentorian is regarded as one of the pioneers of the underground heavy metal music movement, which re-energized heavy metal in Bangladesh in this current decade. Perhaps Stentorian is most notable for being led by three of the greatest Bangladeshi rock vocalists of all time, Real, Torsha and Tanim Sufyani" and for their commercially successful single Bishonno Adhaar where they featured Sumon from Aurthohin.
Stentorian is typically classified as heavy metal, but it ranges from soft rock, power ballad to thrash metal and most recently progressive metal. Stentorian's approach has remained the same over the band's career, preferring to play what they enjoy and do best. Their appreciation of early rock and heavy metal is reflected in some of their occasional cover songs. Stentorian's heavy metal lyrics typically cover such topics as war, good versus evil, abuse of power, psychological depression, social disorder and politics. Stentorian’s popular soft music lyrics contain love, affection and emotional appeal.
Usage examples of "stentorian".
Religious proclamations, stentorian speeches by assorted politicians who could not tell a spiral galaxy from a supernova.
He used to spend a great deal of his time in this room writing, translating, and at times singing strange words in a stentorian voice, while passers-by on the lake would stop to listen with astonishment and curiosity to the singular sounds.
Gnaeus Pompeius could even listen with a look of alert interest on his face to the stentorian voices of the Sertorian heralds who dogged his footsteps detailing to his soldiers the hideous fate in store for the women of Lauro when they reached their new owners in far-western Lusitania.
Here the only sounds disturbing the stillness were steady munchings of many mouths, and stentorian breathings from all but invisible noses, ending in snores and puffs like the blowing of bellows slowly.
These two females did afterwards depone that Mr Willet in his consternation uttered but one word, and called that up the stairs in a stentorian voice, six distinct times.
The cub let out a series of pleased grunts that sounded like stentorian giggles, and let go of him.
Outside the cottage the loudhailers were screeching in their metallic stentorian voices.
At intervals they halted, the cacophony would cease abruptly, and Polichinelle would announce in a stentorian voice that at five o’clock that evening in the old market, M.
Doors swung wide, sweet horns sounded, and the warder announced in stentorian breaths, “The Royse Teidez dy Chalion!