Trumpet

Quick meaning: Trumpet is a noun meaning Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

Meaning

Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

More Meanings

1. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
2. (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
3. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
4. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
5. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
6. (music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
7. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

Example Sentences

I will the banner from a trumpet take

The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.

The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.

The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.

Word Forms

• trumpets
• trumpeting
• trumpeted

Synonyms for trumpet

Depending on context, synonyms include beme, cornet, flugelhorn, horn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cornet, horn, trumpeter, blare, cone, creeper.

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