noun. A loud-voiced Greek herald in the Iliad.

noun. One with a loud or piercing voice.

noun. Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans of the genus Stentor, living in freshwater habitats and feeding chiefly on smaller microorganisms.

noun. A person having a very powerful voice.

noun. In mammalogy: The ursine howler, Mycetes ursinus, a platyrrhine monkey of South America; an alouate; any species of Mycetes. See cut under howler.

noun. [capitalized] The genus of howlers: same as Mycetes.

noun. In Protozoa: A trumpet-animalcule, or so-called funnel-like polyp.

noun. [capitalized] The typical genus of Stentoridæ, of elongate, trumpetlike, or infundibuliform figure, with rounded peristome.

noun. A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.

noun. Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.

noun. A howling monkey, or howler.

noun. a person with a powerful or stentorian voice

noun. A howler monkey.

noun. any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor

noun. a speaker with an unusually loud voice

noun. the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes

"Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody."