trumpet
Sentences
Meaning
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- 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.
- Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
- The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- 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.
- A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
- Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
- (slang) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
Synonyms
collomia
trumpet player
blat out
brass wind
make public
raise one’s voice
Chinese trumpetfish
Pacific trumpetfish
brass wind instrument
ram’s horn
pouring cup
sprue cup
hera-yagara
painted flute mouth
painted flutemouth
cow horn
runner cup
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
Etymology
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.
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