Word: horn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu. (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes. Pronunciation: /hɔːn/, /hɔɹn/, /ˈhɑːɹˠn/, /ˈhoːɹˠn/, /ˈhoːɻn/ 1. A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. Labels: countable 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An antler. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects. Labels: uncountable Example: an umbrella with a handle made of horn 5. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: horns of mead and ale Example: The one brought out a filled up horn. 6. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. 7. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar 12. Any of several musical wind instruments. Labels: countable 13. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others. Labels: countable Example: hunting horn 14. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle. Labels: countable 15. A sound signaling the expiration of time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count. 16. A conical device used to direct waves. Labels: countable Example: antenna horn Example: loudspeaker horn 17. Generally, any brass wind instrument. Labels: countable, informal 18. A telephone. Labels: countable, slang Example: Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this. 19. An erection of the penis. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar, with-definite-article 20. A peninsula or projecting tract of land. Labels: countable Example: to navigate around the horn Example: But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker. 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. Labels: countable 22. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). Labels: countable, uncountable 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. Labels: countable, uncountable