Meaning

3 senses
  1. A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.

    Megafon, Sprachrohr, Sprechtrichter

    мегафо́нmegafón, ру́порrúpor, громкоговори́тельgromkogovorítelʹ

    мегафо́нmehafón, ру́порrúpor, гучномо́вецьhučnomóvecʹ

    a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice

  2. (figuratively)Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.

  3. (uncountable)A cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Do you really need a megaphone?

    deBrauchst du wirklich ein Megaphon? — Waldelfe

  2. This is a megaphone.

    ruЭто мегафон. — Selena777

    deDas ist ein Megaphon. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. This megaphone doesn't work.

    ruЭтот мегафон не работает. — Selena777

  4. A megaphone isn't a megafauna.

  5. The megaphone's broken.

    ruМегафон сломан. — Selena777

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
portable device used to amplify a person's voice:
Русский
By meaning 1
portable device used to amplify a person's voice:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
portable device used to amplify a person's voice:

Origin

From mega- + -phone. Named for the root Aniba megaphylla + -one.

From mega- + -phone.

Named for the root Aniba megaphylla + -one.

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Forms

plural: megaphones
Singularmegaphone
Pluralmegaphones

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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