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Definition: Stentor |
StentorNoun1. Any member of the genus Stentor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stentor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Etymology: Stentor \Sten"tor\, noun. [Latin expression Stentor, Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stentor The voice of a Stentor. A very loud voice. Stentor was a Greek herald in the Trojan war. According to Homer, his voice was as loud as that of fifty men combined. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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In biology, Stentor is a genus of ciliate protozoa, representative of the heterotrichs. The body is generally trumpet-shaped, hence the association with the herald, with a ring of prominent membranelles around the anterior "bell" that sweep in food and aid in swimming. Stentor are common in freshwater lakes and streams, usually attached to algae and other detritus. Some reach several millimetres in length, making them among the largest single-celled organisms.
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Crosswords: Stentor |
| English words defined with "stentor": Stentorin ♦ Trumpet animalcule. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stentor": Opera ♦ Stentorian Lungs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stentor": Stentorophonic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stentor" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (stentor, stentorian). |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word simulation is from simia, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model Simia audibilis (or Pithecanthropos stentor) -- the ape that howls. The actor apes a man -- at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape. |
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| Ireland | Stentor plc |
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Expression using "stentor": genus Stentor. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stentor | 65 |
stentor taxonomy | 2 |
stentor violin | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "stentor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | στέντωρ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entorstay stentor (stentorian). (various references) người có giọng oang oang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stentor": stentorian, stentors. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stentor" (pronounced ste"nter) |
| 4 | -e" n t er | center, centre, dissenter, enter, inventor, mentor, renter, Venter. |
| 3 | -n t er | banter, blunter, canter, Cantor, carpenter, counter, covenanter, discounter, enchanter, encounter, epicenter, experimenter, fainter, grantor, headhunter, Hunter, Midwinter, Minter, multicenter, overwinter, painter, planter, pointer, presenter, printer, punter, reenter, saunter, splinter, sprinter, Supercenter, tormentor, winter. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: nestor, noters, otters, rotten, rottes, stoner, tenors, tensor, teston, toners, torten, tortes, toters, trones. | |
-2 letters: nerts, netts, noter, notes, onset, otter, rents, roset, rotes, rotte, senor, seton, snore, snort, steno, stern, stone, store, tenor, tents, terns, toner, tones, tores, torse, torte, torts, toter, totes, trets, trone, trots. | |
-3 letters: eons, erns, eros, erst, nest. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: knotters, portents, snottier, stentors, tenorist, torments, torrents, tritones. | |
+2 letters: attorneys, betatrons, buttoners, contester, cornetist, entrepots, frontlets, northeast, northwest, patentors, rebuttons, rottenest, stationer, sternmost, sternpost, stonewort, strongest, tenorists, tenorites, tetragons, thorniest, trecentos, trotlines, turnstone. | |
+3 letters: anorthites, assortment, birthstone, bonesetter, carnotites, concretist, contesters, contrasted, cornetists, cornettist, detonators, detritions, downstater, entoprocts, entrecotes, extortions, introjects, introspect, introverts, iterations, lorgnettes, monetarist, natrolites, nethermost, nonstarter, northeasts, northwests, orientates, pinspotter, portentous, pothunters, protestant, protesting, protonates, recontacts, respotting, retentions, rottenness, sandlotter, sermonette, stationers, stationery, stenotherm, stentorian, sternposts, stoneworts, storefront, teratogens, threnodist, tonometers, tormenters, tormentils, tormentors, tretinoins, tricotines, trisection, turnstones. | |
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