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megaphone
[meg-uh-fohn]
noun
a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance.
verb (used with or without object)
to transmit or speak through or as if through a megaphone.
megaphone
/ ˌmɛɡəˈfɒnɪk, ˈmɛɡəˌfəʊn /
noun
a funnel-shaped instrument used to amplify the voice See also loud-hailer
Other 51Թ Forms
- megaphonic adjective
- megaphonically adverb
- ˌˈDzԾ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of megaphone1
Example Sentences
Najee Gow, who is Black and grew up in Minnesota, arrived downtown Wednesday with a Mexican flag on his back and led the crowd in chants with a megaphone outside the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Trump and Musk have two of the world's biggest megaphones, and they have now turned them on each other.
That hands the loudest and largest megaphones to CEOs and their PR flacks and leaves actual citizens with laryngitis from straining to be heard above the profit-making din.
Will Mejia’s megaphone grow even louder now that actual layoffs are on the table?
He bellowed through his megaphone at politicians heading into work and became closely associated with dissent against the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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