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Definition: Megaphone |
MegaphoneNoun1. A cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "megaphone" was first used: 1878. (references) |
Etymology: Megaphone \Meg"a*phone\, noun. [Mega- Greek expression voice.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Megaphone |
| Specialty definitions using "megaphone": BEACH LIFEGUARD ♦ GUIDE, SIGHTSEEING ♦ spieler. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Wagner's opera Siegfried, the voice of the dragon Fafnir was to be sung by a bass, offstage rear, using an acoutic megaphone.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Megaphone."
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | 1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Comes alongside USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2) outside Claywall Harbor, Naples, Italy, 10 April 1968. The submarine's Commanding Officer, Commander Francis A. Slattery, is atop her sail, holding a megaphone. Scorpion was lost with all hands in May 1968, while returning to the U.S. from this Mediterranean deployment.Credit: NAVY. |  | Speaks to another ship via electric megaphone (or "loud hailer") from the bridge of his flagship, USS Phoenix (CL-46), during the pre-landing bombardment of Corregidor, 15 February 1945. The original caption identifies the ship being spoken to as HMAS Australia, which was not present. It may refer to HMAS Shropshire, whose appearance was similar to that of Australia.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Robert F. Kennedy using megaphone to address a group of civil rights demonstrators at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Megaphone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Megaphone" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "megaphone": megaphone-wielding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "megaphone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | megafon (loud-hailer, speaking tube), altoparlant (loudspeaker, speaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكبر الصوت (amplifier, loudspeaker, speaker), مضخم صوت, بوق (blare, bugle, cornet, euphonium, honk, horn, proboscis, sound, toot, tootle, trump, trumpet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рупор (horn, speaking trumpet), мегафон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扩音机, 擴音器 (microphone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | megafon, tlampaè (loud speaker, speaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | megafon (speaking trumpet, speaking tube), taleroer (speaking tube), raaber (speaking trumpet, speaking tube), hoejttaler-telefon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spreekbuis (Gosport tube, speaking trumpet, speaking tube), scheepsroeper (speaking tube), luidpsrekende telefoon, loudhailer, krachtige luidspreker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بلندگو (Loudspeaker, Microphone), بابلندگوحرف زدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huutotorvi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | porte-voix. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Megaphon (bullhorn, loudhailer, trumpet), Sprachrohr (mouthpiece, speaking tube, trumpet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγάφωνο (loudspeaker, speaker, tannoy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מגפון, מגביר קול (loudspeaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megafon (loud-hailer, loudspeaker), hangszóró (horn, loudspeaker, loud-speaker, speaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | alat pengeras suara. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | portavoce (mouthpiece, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman), megafono (loudhailer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | メガトン爆弾 (megabits, megabytes, megahertz, megalo, megalopolis, megaton bomb, Mexico, MHz), 伝音器 (sound box, speaking tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | メガホン , でんおんき (sound box, speaking tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 메가폰. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egaphonemay megafone (bell-mouth, horn, Lough, speaking trumpet), aglomeração (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, cluster, crush, jam, turn out). (various references) megafon. (various references) мегафон (bullhorn, speaking-trumpet). (various references) megafon (loud-hailer), zvučnik (loudspeaker, speaker). (various references) megáfono (bullhorn), bocina (hooter, horn, klaxon, speaking trumpet). (various references) megafon. (various references) โทรโข่ง, พูดผ่านโทรโข่ง. (various references) megafon (hailer, speaking trumpet). (various references) рупор (horn, mouthpiece, speaking trumpet, speaking tube, trumpet, voice), говорити в рупор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | megas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "megaphone": megaphoned, megaphones. (additional references) | |
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"Megaphone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: magaphone, Magnaphone, megaphoned, megaphonic, megapode, miraphone, mmegaphone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "megaphone" (pronounced me"gufō'n) |
| 4 | -u f ō' n | allophone, microphone, saxophone, sousaphone, telephone, xylophone. |
| 3 | -f ō' n | earphone, headphone, videophone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-m-n-o-p" | |
-2 letters: hogmane, peonage, phoneme. | |
-3 letters: apogee, genome, hempen, homage, manege, menage, ohmage, peahen, phenom, pongee. | |
-4 letters: agene, agone, among, enema, genoa, genom, gnome, hogan, mahoe, mange, mango, ogham, omega, paeon, peage, pengo, phage, phone. | |
-5 letters: aeon, agee, agon, ahem, amen, epha, gaen, game, gamp, gane, gape, gene, ghee, gone, haem, haen, hame, hang, heap, heme. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-m-n-o-p" | |
+1 letter: megaphoned, megaphones. | |
+3 letters: phrasemonger. | |
+4 letters: encephalogram, magnetosphere, phrasemongers. | |
+5 letters: encephalograms, hypomagnesemia, magnetospheres, magnetospheric. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 67 61 70 68 6F 6E 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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