horn

Meaning

1. A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
2. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
3. An antler.
4. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
5. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
6. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
7. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
8. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
9. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
10. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
11. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
12. Any of several musical wind instruments.
13. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
14. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
15. A sound signaling the expiration of time.
16. A conical device used to direct waves.
17. (informal) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
18. (slang) A telephone.
19. (slang) An erection of the penis.
20. A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
21. A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
22. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
23. In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.

trumpet

car horn

automobile horn

motor horn

bick iron

signal alarm

anvil horn

brass wind

buffalo horn

alarm bell

wrist joint

medicinal horn 3

house of chief

bickern

animal horn

brass wind instrument

beck iron

angulus

jiao-elongated clitoris

bone knob

pennywhistle

ram’s horn

anvil beak

beak iron

horn radiator

horn-lens antenna

crescent roll

electromagnetic horn

hoghorn antenna

valve horn

alarm whistle

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɔːn/

From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.