stentorian

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   extremely loud and powerful, especially when describing a person's voice

   His stentorian call carried from the deck to the boats below.

From Stentor, a Greek herald in Homer's Iliad whose voice was said to be as powerful as those of fifty men, + -ian. The literary allusion became a general adjective for a booming voice.

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