trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Forms: form: trumpets
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
text: In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
ref: 1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:
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glosses: 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.
examples: text: The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
text: Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
examples: text: The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
glosses: The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
examples: text: I will the banner from a trumpet take
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
glosses: A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
examples: text: The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.
ref: 1974, O.T.A., Proceedings, page 4:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
glosses: Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
glosses: A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
Synonyms: sense: musical instrument
word: beme
sense: musical instrument
word: cornet
sense: musical instrument
word: flugelhorn
Hyponyms: sense: musical instrument
word: natural trumpet
sense: musical instrument
word: straight trumpet
Meronyms: sense: musical instrument, opening
word: bell
sense: musical instrument, opening
word: codon
sense: musical instrument, opening
word: mouth
Derived terms: angel's trumpet
Bach trumpet
black trumpet
blow one's own trumpet
blow someone's trumpet
Chinese trumpet vine
devil's trumpet
ear trumpet
hearing trumpet
king trumpet mushroom
last trumpet
marine trumpet
mock trumpet
natural trumpet
pocket trumpet
sea trumpet
slide trumpet
speaking trumpet
spirit trumpet
stadium trumpet
straight trumpet
trumpet animalcule
trumpet call
trumpet creeper
trumpet cuff
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trumpet flower
trumpet honeysuckle
trumpet major
trumpet marine
trumpet of the dead
trumpet-player
trumpet shell
trumpet-tailed rat
trumpet tree
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