trumpet

Meaning

Noun

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
4. (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
6. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
8. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
9. (US, capitalized, often, slang) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
2. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
3. (ambitransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
4. (ambitransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
5. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

Synonyms

horn

bugle

roar

cornet

trump

clarion

bellow

shout

trumpeter

collomia

thunder

🌩️

trumpet player

scream

😱

trumpeting

wind instrument

yell

proclaim

holler

hoot

howl

inform

klaxon

loudspeaker

📢

megaphone

mew

oviduct

resound

sackbut

seashell

shriek

siren

snarl

spread

spread out

toot

trombone

utter

whistle

blare out

blat out

brass wind

French horn

make public

raise one’s voice

Chinese trumpetfish

Pacific trumpetfish

brass wind instrument

ram’s horn

pouring cup

sprue cup

Translations

trompette

🎺

Trompete

🎺

tromba

🎺

trompeta

🎺

trompet

🎺

trombeta

trompeta

🎺

τρομπέτα

bazuin

tuba

بوق

🎺

σάλπιγγα

Horn

barrir

🎺

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: trumpet

Cognate with Old High German: trumpa

Cognate with Middle Dutch: tromme

Cognate with Middle Low German: trumme

Cognate with Old Norse: trumba

In summary

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.

Sentences

I woke up to the screech of my neighbor practicing trumpet .

An instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet in sound .