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trum·pet
I. \ˈtrəmpə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English trumpete, trompette, from Middle French trompette, from Old French trompe trumpet + -ette — more at trump (trumpet)
1.
a.
(1) : a wind instrument consisting of a long cylindrical metal tube commonly once or twice curved and ending in a bell, producing its tones by the vibration of the player's lips against a cup-shaped mouthpiece, having valves that enable the use of all scale tones in its normal compass of written F sharp below middle C as indicated on the treble staff to the C two octaves above middle C, and usually constructed in B flat thereby sounding a whole step lower than the notation indicates — compare bugle, cornet
(2) : a metal wind instrument (as the cornet) similar in shape and method of tone production to the trumpet
b. : a clarion call or one that utters it
< sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of Reformation — John Milton >
< a powerful trumpet who stirred the pulse of mankind — M.R.Cohen >
2.
a. : a trumpet player
< persuaded the trumpets, who were satisfied with playing high notes, to play good notes — Cy Feuer >
b. obsolete : messenger, spokesman
< be thou the trumpet of our wrath — Shakespeare >
3. : something that resembles a trumpet or its tonal quality: as
a. : an 8-foot pipe-organ reed stop with a penetrating tone
b. : triton 2
c. : a funnel-shaped instrument (as a megaphone or a diaphragm horn) for collecting, directing, or intensifying sound — see ear trumpet, speaking trumpet
d.
(1) : a trumpet-shaped flower especially of a plant of the genera Datura, Campsis, or Bignonia
(2) trumpets South : any of several pitcher plants having long trumpet-shaped leaves; especially : a swamp plant (Sarracenia flava)
e.
(1) : a stentorian voice
(2) : a penetrating cry (as of an elephant)
(3) : a shrill hum (as of a mosquito)
f. : a funnel-shaped guide for material (as the fiber web leaving a carding machine)
 [trumpet 1a]
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
intransitive verb
1. : to blow a trumpet
< practicing soldiers trumpeted and bugled — Charles Dickens >
2.
a. : to make a shrill trumpetlike sound
< trumpet like … a wounded cow elephant — Charles Beadle >
b. : to make a vociferous proclamation
< trumpets from his editorials on war and politics — H.S.Canby >
transitive verb
1. : to give vociferous utterance to : proclaim loudly
< orders trumpeted to us that morning — Kenneth Roberts >
< was not going to trumpet his criticisms while on foreign soil — Blair Clark >
2. : to bring to public notice by or as if by the sounding of trumpets
< a triumph which must be trumpeted — Sophie Kerr >
< Italy's most trumpeted living writer — Time >
also : to summon or denounce by or as if by blowing a trumpet |