megaphone
pronunciation
How to pronounce megaphone in British English:
UK [ˈmegəfəʊn]
How to pronounce megaphone in American English:
US [ˈmegəfoʊn]
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- Noun:
- a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice
Word Origin
- megaphone (n.)
- 1878, coined (perhaps by Thomas Edison, who invented it) from Greek megas "great" (see mega-) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). Related: Megaphonic. In Greek, megalophonia meant "grandiloquence," megalophonos "loud-voiced."
Example
- 1. The mayor , rosa pons , used a megaphone to congratulate everyone .
- 2. Simply put , twitter is a better megaphone than it is a lab.
- 3. And you don 't need a megaphone when you 're the u.s. president .
- 4. Today such rumours , scurrilous or not , are not so much whispered as bruited by megaphone by chinese citizens themselves , via websites and microblogs .
- 5. Megaphone in hand , he offered " profound apologies " to stranded travellers and promised that the government was doing all it could .