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1. megaphone
noun. ['ˈmɛgəˌfoʊn'] a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice.
Etymology
- mega- (English)
- μέγας (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
- phone (English)
Rhymes with Megaphone
- airfone
- allophone
- businessphone
- dictaphone
- earphone
- earphone
- francophone
- gramaphone
- headphone
- homophone
- microphone
- saxophone
- sousaphone
- telephone
- videophone
- vodafone
- xylophone
Sentences with megaphone
1. Noun, singular or mass
Tie the center of the ribbon around the mouth section of the megaphone.
Quotes about megaphone
1. Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- C.S. Lewis
2. There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
- Robert Mankoff
3. Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next door. I even tell God the exact address, as if He can’t read my heart. But it’s not for His benefit, it’s for my neighbors’.
- Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
