stentorian

adj.
Extremely loud: a stentorian voice. See synonyms at loud.

[After Stentor, a loud-voiced Greek herald in the Iliad.]

It's perhaps not surprising that Katie Couric, the US's first female network news anchor, started off her tenure in a voice uniquely her own — and it was not a stentorian (loud and booming) one:

"The 'CBS Evening News' is third [after NBC and ABC], but Couric has said that could be liberating, offering a chance to try new things in a format she has called formulaic.
"That willingness was apparent even before the first commercial break — this was not a stentorian reading off dozens of news headlines."

Link: Grand Haven Tribune - Katie Couric makes big format changes in much-awaited 'CBS Evening News' debut

Posted September 7, 2006.

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adjective

Marked by extremely high volume and intensity of sound: blaring, deafening, earsplitting, loud, roaring. See sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.

[fr. Stentor, a Gk warrior with a powerful voice]  /sten TOR ee un/
of the voice: loud, like that of Stentor; also stentorious

IN BRIEF: Very loud.

The stentorian honks of the geese could be heard for miles.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - stentor-

Nederlands (Dutch)
zeer luid (stem)

Français (French)
adj. - de stentor

Deutsch (German)
adj. - laut hallend

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - στεντόρειος

Italiano (Italian)
stentoreo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - estentóreo

Русский (Russian)
громогласный, громовой

Español (Spanish)
adj. - estentóreo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - stentors-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
声音大的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 聲音大的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 음성이 매우 큰, 큰 목소리의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 大声の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) (صوت) جهوري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רם, חזק (קול)‬

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