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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. Compare bullhorn.

verb (used with or without object), meg·a·phoned, meg·a·phon·ing.

to transmit or speak through or as if through a megaphone.

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Origin of megaphone

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; mega- + -phone

OTHER WORDS FROM megaphone

meg·a·phon·ic [meg-uh-fon-ik], /ˌmɛg əˈfɒn ɪk/, adjective meg·a·phon·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby megaphone

Megan, Megan's Law, Meganthropus, megaparsec, megaphanerophyte, megaphone, megaphyll, megapixel, megaplex, megapode, megapolis

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021

Words related to megaphone

How to use megaphone in a sentence

  • You send things out and you don't want it to just be a megaphone.

  • It's a time to celebrate or it's a megaphone reminder of our aching hearts.

  • America's tech giants have also cracked down, stripping the 45th US president and his supporters of their digital megaphones just days before his term ends.

  • Only when big companies take away the megaphones and the money does it seem like Trumpism could someday sputter to an end.

  • He also used his money to launch or buy media outlets that served as a megaphone for his political causes and a means of countering criticism of his business practices.

  • Gotta have the beret and megaphone if I want people to take me seriously!

  • More campaign dollars and a louder megaphone are by themselves not enough to win swing states.

  • If we want a megaphone to the rest of the world, we must explicitly ask for it by changing that setting ourselves.

  • Reading Stirring the Pot is like having a Day-Glo, dumb-feminism-for-dummies megaphone blasted into your ears.

  • Turn that megaphone around and use feedback you receive on the crowdsourcing and social media platforms as consumer feedback.

  • I fairly barked, and seizing the megaphone again, I set it to my lips and roared, "My fiancée!"

  • My lips were buried in the megaphone; I strove to speak; I only produced a ghastly, chuckling sound.

  • "Jack Kilmeny will ride Teddy Roosevelt," blared the megaphone man.

  • Captain Wass grabbed down his megaphone; he wanted to submit a few remarks which seemed to fit the incident.

  • Russia is the megaphone from which his voice goes out through every land and over every sea.

British Dictionary definitions for megaphone

noun

a funnel-shaped instrument used to amplify the voice See also loud-hailer

Derived forms of megaphone

megaphonic (ˌmɛɡəˈfɒnɪk), adjective megaphonically, adverb

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Use Word Roots to Explain What Megaphone Means

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