Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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From mega- + -phone.
megaphone (plural megaphones)
- A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
- Synonyms: (US) bullhorn, speaking trumpet
- (figuratively) Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
2018 June 6, Arwa Mahdawi, “Michael Pack: the Bannon ally critics fear will become Trump's global propagandist”, in The Guardian[1]:If Pack does become head of the BBG, critics fear that he will turn Voice of America and the other BBG networks into a megaphone for Trump.
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Derived terms
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Translations
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portable device used to amplify a person's voice
- Albanian: megafon (sq) m
- Arabic: مُكَبِّر صَوْت m (mukabbir ṣawt), بُوق m (būq)
- Moroccan Arabic: بوق m (būq)
- Armenian: մեգաֆոն (hy) (megafon), ռուպոր (hy) (ṙupor) (colloquial)
- Azerbaijani: megafon
- Belarusian: мегафо́н m (mjehafón), ру́пар m (rúpar), гучнагавары́цель m (hučnahavarýcjelʹ)
- Bulgarian: ру́пор (bg) m (rúpor), мегафо́н m (megafón), високоговори́тел (bg) m (visokogovorítel)
- Burmese: အော်လန် (my) (aulan)
- Catalan: megàfon m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大聲公/大声公 (daai6 seng1 gung1)
- Mandarin: 擴音器/扩音器 (zh) (kuòyīnqì)
- Czech: megafon m
- Danish: megafon c
- Dutch: megafoon (nl) m
- Esperanto: megafono
- Estonian: megafon
- Finnish: megafoni (fi), huutotorvi
- French: porte-voix (fr) m, portevoix (fr), mégaphone (fr) m
- Galician: megáfono m
- Georgian: მეგაფონი (megaponi)
- German: Megafon (de) n, (also fig.) Sprachrohr (de) n, Sprechtrichter m, (colloquial) Flüstertüte (de) f
- Greek: μεγάφωνο (el) n (megáfono), τηλεβόας (el) m (tilevóas), χωνί (el) n (choní), ντουντούκα (el) f (ntountoúka)
- Hebrew: מֵגָפוֹן \ מגאפון (he) m (megafon)
- Hindi: मेगाफ़ोन m (megāfon)
- Hungarian: megafon (hu)
- Ido: megafono (io)
- Indonesian: megafon (id), corong suara (id)
- Italian: megafono (it) m
- Japanese: メガホン (ja) (megahon), 伝音器 (でんおんき, den'onki)
- Kazakh: мегафон (megafon)
- Khmer: គ្រឿងបំពងសំឡេង (krɨəng bɑmpɔɔng sɑmleing)
- Korean: 메가폰 (megapon), 전음기(傳音器) (jeoneumgi), 경음기(警音機) (gyeong'eumgi) (North Korea), 확성기(擴聲器) (ko) (hwakseonggi)
- Kyrgyz: мегафон (megafon)
- Latin: megaphonum, megaphonium
- Latvian: megafons m
- Lithuanian: megafonas m
- Luxembourgish: Megaphon m
- Malay: megafon
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: megafon m
- Nynorsk: megafon m
- Persian: مگافون (megâfôn)
- Plautdietsch: Spräakjrua n
- Polish: megafon (pl) m
- Portuguese: megafone (pt) m
- Romanian: megafon (ro) n
- Russian: мегафо́н (ru) m (megafón), ру́пор (ru) m (rúpor), громкоговори́тель (ru) m (gromkogovorítelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ме̏гафо̄н m
- Roman: mȅgafōn (sh) m
- Slovak: megafón m
- Slovene: megafón m
- Spanish: megáfono m
- Swedish: megafon (sv) c
- Tagalog: panalingagngag
- Tajik: мегафон (megafon)
- Thai: โทรโข่ง (th) (too-rá-kòong)
- Turkish: megafon (tr)
- Ukrainian: мегафо́н m (mehafón), ру́пор m (rúpor), гучномо́вець m (hučnomóvecʹ)
- Uzbek: megafon (uz)
- Vietnamese: loa phóng thanh, loa (vi)
- Volapük: spikamahorn, spikamarüd
- Walloon: hôt-pårleu (wa) m
- Welsh: megaffon m
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megaphone (third-person singular simple present megaphones, present participle megaphoning, simple past and past participle megaphoned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.
Etymology 2
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Named for the root Aniba megaphylla + -one.
megaphone (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla.