Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

loudhailer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: loud-hail-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A megaphone or bullhorn.

British usage

Example Sentences

"It's a grotesque, misleading smear on a diverse group of individuals – a bit like claiming all Muslims are terrorists (which, coincidentally, the guy beside them is currently doing through a loudhailer)."
"As Ukrainian forces struggled to hold the flattened city, it was claimed that civilians in captured territory were being deceived into leaving shelters to be bussed out to Russian camps by soldiers wielding loudhailers. […] Russian soldiers with loudhailers were instead said to be driving around parts of the city claiming that the city of Odesa has fallen and that other havens for refugees were now rejecting fleeing people."

Etymology

From loud + hailer.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

loudhailers (plural)

Synonyms

blowhorn

Rhymes With

taylor trailer sailor tailor mailer scalar paler jailer whaler velar malar traylor

Questions

What does loudhailer mean?: A megaphone or bullhorn.
Where does loudhailer come from?: From loud + hailer.

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