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MEGAPHONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does megaphone mean?
• MEGAPHONE (noun)
The noun MEGAPHONE has 1 sense:
1. a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice
Familiarity information: MEGAPHONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("megaphone" is a kind of...):
acoustic device (a device for amplifying or transmitting sound)
Context examples
The man on the Lady Mine laughed back through the megaphone.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The other was lifting a megaphone to his lips.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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