cornet

Meaning

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
5. A kind of organ stop.
6. A hollow horn-like growth.

Synonyms

horn

trumpet

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bugle

trump

cornetist

flugelhorn

coif

pipe

clarion

twist

wind instrument

French horn

cornopean

cornet-a’-pistons

cornett

cornett player

cone

bugle horn

Translations

cornet

cornetta

Kornett

corneta

kornet

corneta

trompette

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Horn

Flügelhorn

τρομπέτα

corneta

Spitztüte

cornet à pistons

بوق

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɔɹˈnɛt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cornet

In summary

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).