Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a megaphone; of the nature of a megaphone; transmitted by means of a megaphone: as, a megaphonic message.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone
  • adjective of a sound Produced by a megaphone
  • adjective of a voice loud and echoey, as if produced by a megaphone.

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Examples

  • He outlawed the ownership of public address systems and other megaphonic devices by individuals.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » God bless you, big insurance company. 2009

  • "Telephone Thing" sounds simulataneously dirge-like and vivacious, "Edinburgh Man" is sweetly melodic and atmospheric, and Smith's vocals - sometimes megaphonic, sometimes distorted - are a treat.

    FallNet - Old people worry about the milk 1998

  • Walt Whitman got one year's big whiff of the West and it transformed him, made him vastly panoramic and megaphonic.

    Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries 1910

  • The megaphonic Bull Pen, however, continued with irregularity, but annoying certainty to furnish its quota of noise.

    A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909

  • The megaphonic Bull Pen, however, continued with irregularity, but annoying certainty to furnish its quota of noise.

    A Mind That Found Itself Beers, Clifford W. 1908

  • Even as Katrina was beginning to explain that her husband did not think it necessary to complete the furnishing of the house for a year or two, he summoned her to his side by a megaphonic demand for water to thin his ink.

    Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

  • "I'm tired!" was the message Genevieve Maud sent to a sympathetic world on the wings of this megaphonic roar.

    Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

  • Enthusiasm cannot be created at the word of command, nor can heroes be inspired by cheers artificially produced under megaphonic intimidation.

    Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899

  • One curious feature of my stay was the megaphonic recapitulation of the heads of the instruction, after each session, by an elderly Indian who stood out in the midst of the tents.

    Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

  • Confused, delirious with excitement and provincial longings, they tried to make ocular responses to the megaphonic ritual.

    The Four Million O. Henry 1886

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