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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bu•gle /ˈbyugəl/USA pronunciation n., v., -gled, -gling. n. [countable] - Music and Dancea brass wind instrument resembling a horn but usually without keys or valves.
v. [no object] - Music and Danceto sound a bugle.
bu•gler, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bu•gle1 (byo̅o̅′gəl),USA pronunciation n., v., -gled, -gling. n. - Music and Dancea brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
v.i. - Music and Danceto sound a bugle.
- Animal Behavior(of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.
v.t. - Music and Danceto call by or with a bugle:to bugle reveille.
- Latin būculus bullock, young ox, equivalent. to bū- variant stem of bōs ox + -culus -cle1
- Anglo-French, Old French
- Middle English bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn 1250–1300
- Plant Biologyajuga.
- Medieval Latin bugula a kind of plant
- Old French
- Middle English 1225–75
- ClothingAlso called bu′gle bead′. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.
adj. - ClothingAlso, bu′gled. ornamented with bugles.
- of obscure origin, originally 1570–80
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