megaphone
23
3.6
- noun
- /ˈmɛɡəˌfoʊn/
:
megáfono
- When the men were being taken away, the soldiers had shouted on megaphones for everyone to stay inside.
Some have suggested a man threw his megaphone at Kessler.
- Some have suggested a man threw his megaphone at Kessler.
- Israeli soldiers at night held their megaphones and instructed hundreds of Palestinians to flee their homes.
- A man is is shot and immediately you have a crowd on the streets with a woman shouting through a megaphone.
- And they would actually go into the distributor's house, the Yakuza, they have these black trucks with big megaphones out of.
Examples
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At 2:30 a.m., a garbled voice from a megaphone announced, "St. Vrain River, higher ground."
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Jack shouted again through the megaphone, "Ladies and gentlemen, the show is going to begin!"
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A man called through a megaphone, "Go home, go home."
Fiction book (1990) -
So now there was a tool for these people to have a megaphone to say, look how wonderful I am.
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I'm walking through the parking lot, I see a guy with a megaphone and a vest and like a long flag.
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We would even go to people's work and talk to them through the megaphones.
Academic text (2010) -
Israeli soldiers at night held their megaphones and instructed hundreds of Palestinians to flee their homes.
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A metallic voice came at them, half garbled by a megaphone, telling them to turn back, telling them it was unlawful.
Fiction book (1999) -
The soldier with a megaphone bellows at a group of townspeople gathered in front of a donut shop:
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm walking through the parking lot when I see a guy with a megaphone directing traffic.
Synonyms
22
4.1
A portable speaker with a microphone that makes your voice louder for a crowd
A cone-shaped device that makes your voice louder and directs it
A portable speaker with a microphone that makes a voice louder for people farther away to hear
How Loud
4
3.3
41
2.2
- US
22
4.1
23
3.6
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
megaphone = mega + phone
The word is built from the classical elements 'mega-' and 'phone', and while many learners can infer a meaning like 'loud-voice device', the bound root 'phone' is not fully transparent as an everyday English base.
Etymology
The word megaphone comes from Greek parts mega 'large' and phone 'voice'. So a megaphone is a 'large voice' tool that makes your voice louder and more direct.