trumpet /trumˈpit/

1. An orchestral, military and signalling brass instrument of powerful and brilliant tone, in its present form a narrow tube bent twice upon itself, with cupped mouthpiece and flaring bell, giving, by action of the lips and breath pressure, harmonics of its fundamental, the scale filled up by use of crooks, slides, or valves
2. Applied to other instruments more or less resembling this
3. A speaking-trumpet
4. An ear-trumpet
5. A trumpet-shaped object, such as a flared bell or horn, a corolla or corona
6. A sound of, or as if of, a trumpet
7. A trumpeter
8. An organ reed stop of trumpet-like tone

1. To sound or play on a trumpet or with trumpet-like sound
2. To proclaim, celebrate, summon, denounce, expel, etc by trumpet

1. To sound a trumpet
2. To make a sound like a trumpet

trumˈpeted adjective

1. Sounded on a trumpet
2. Loudly extolled
3. Having a trumpet
4. Funnel-shaped

trumˈpeter noun

1. A person who plays or sounds the trumpet
2. A person who proclaims, praises or denounces
3. A loud-voiced crane-like S American bird (genus Psophia)
4. A trumpeter swan
5. A kind of domestic pigeon
6. A large Australian and New Zealand food-fish (genus Latris) or other fish that trumpets when caught

trumˈpeting noun and adjective

trumpet call noun

1. A conventional phrase or passage played on the trumpet as a signal
2. Any call to action

trumpeter swan noun

A black-billed American swan (Cygnus buccinator), the largest of the world's swans

trumˈpetfish noun

1. The snipefish or bellows-fish (Centriscus or Macrorhamphosus), a long-snouted fish related to the pipefish
2. A flutemouth, a sea fish with a tubular muzzle

trumpet flower noun

A name for various bignoniaceous, solanaceous and other plants with large trumpet-shaped flowers

trumpet major noun

A head trumpeter in a regiment

trumpet marine noun

The tromba marina

trumˈpet-shaped adjective

Like the bell of a trumpet

trumpet shell noun

A shell of the genus Triton

trumpet tone noun

1. The sound of a trumpet
2. A loud voice

trumˈpet-tongued adjective (Shakespeare)

Proclaiming loud as a trumpet

trumpet tree or trumpet wood noun

A S American tree of the genus Cecropia whose hollow branches are used as trumpets by native peoples

blow one's own trumpet

To sound one's own praises

feast of trumpets

Another name for Rosh Hashanah

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