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trumpet /trumˈpit/ noun- 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
- Applied to other instruments more or less resembling this
- A speaking-trumpet
- An ear-trumpet
- A trumpet-shaped object, such as a flared bell or horn, a corolla or corona
- A sound of, or as if of, a trumpet
- A trumpeter
- An organ reed stop of trumpet-like tone
transitive verb- To sound or play on a trumpet or with trumpet-like sound
- To proclaim, celebrate, summon, denounce, expel, etc by trumpet
intransitive verb- To sound a trumpet
- To make a sound like a trumpet
ORIGIN: Fr trompette, dimin of trompe trump trumˈpeted adjective - Sounded on a trumpet
- Loudly extolled
- Having a trumpet
- Funnel-shaped
trumˈpeter noun - A person who plays or sounds the trumpet
- A person who proclaims, praises or denounces
- A loud-voiced crane-like S American bird (genus Psophia)
- A trumpeter swan
- A kind of domestic pigeon
- A large Australian and New Zealand food-fish (genus Latris) or other fish that trumpets when caught
trumˈpeting noun and adjective trumpet call noun - A conventional phrase or passage played on the trumpet as a signal
- Any call to action
trumpeter swan noun A black-billed American swan (Cygnus buccinator), the largest of the world's swans trumˈpetfish noun - The snipefish or bellows-fish (Centriscus or Macrorhamphosus), a long-snouted fish related to the pipefish
- 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 - The sound of a trumpet
- 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 |