horn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
automotive
biology
botany
business
carpentry
construction
entertainment
geography
government
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
military
music
natural-sciences
nautical
politics
sports
transport
vehicles
war
zoology
zootomy
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.
Inflected forms:
form: horns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: horning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: horned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: horned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An antler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: an umbrella with a handle made of horn
gloss: A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: horns of mead and ale
The one brought out a filled up horn.
I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength.
gloss: An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
gloss: An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar
gloss: Any of several musical wind instruments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: hunting horn
gloss: A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A sound signaling the expiration of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
gloss: A conical device used to direct waves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: antenna horn
loudspeaker horn
gloss: Generally, any brass wind instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
gloss: A telephone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
gloss: An erection of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
with-definite-article
gloss: A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: to navigate around the horn
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of an animal, to assault with the horns.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish with horns.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cuckold.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
gloss: To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.
pos: verb
tags: India
Singapore
intransitive
examples: , His Precious Gem
He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.
Derived words: acoustic horn
air horn
airhorn
Alpine horn
alto horn
Amalthea's horn
Ammon's horn
around the horn
baritone horn
basset horn
bass horn
bastard horn snake
behorn
bighorn
Big Horn County
blowhorn
blow-horn
blow horn
blow one's horn
blow one's own horn
buckhorn
buck's-horn
buck's horn plantain
bulb horn
bull-horn
bull horn
bullhorn
butterhorn
chemical horn
chrome horn
clown horn
coach horn
collery horn
cream horn
deerhorn
deer horn knife
dehorn
demihorn
dishorn
Dorset Horn
drinking horn
drinking-horn
earhorn
elkhorn
English horn
feed horn
feedhorn
feed-horn
fire alarm horn
fish-horn
fish horn
flowerhorn
fog-horn
fog horn
foghorn
French horn
gate of horn
Golden Horn
grunt-horn
hartshorn
horn angle
horn antenna
hornbag
hornball
horn ball
hornbeam
horn-bearing
hornbill
Hornblower
hornblower
hornbook
hornbug
horn coral
horncore
horn-dog
horn dog
horn drum
horned
horner
horn fair
horn fly
hornfoot
hornful
hornguide
horn guide
horn-helmeted
hornification
horn in
hornish
hornist
hornless
hornlet
hornlike
horn-mad
horn mercury
Horn of Africa
horn of Amalthea
horn of plenty
Horn OK Please
horn out
hornowl
hornpike
hornpipe
horn pipe
horn-piper
horn piper
horn poppy
hornpout
hornpox
horn-rimmed
horn-rims
hornrims
horns and halo effect
horn shark
horn silver
horn slate
hornsman
hornsnake
hornstone
horntail
horn timber
horn tipper
horn-violin
horn violin
hornwork
hornworm
hornwort
hornwrack
horny
hunting-horn
iliac horn syndrome
inkhorn
knot-horn
lock horns
longhorn
longhorned
melodyhorn
meringue horn
nanohorn
obtuse horn shell
occipital horn syndrome
off the horn
on the horn
on the horns of a dilemma
oxhorn
party horn
paste-horn
Pinard horn
plenty's horn
post-horn
post horn
posthorn
powder horn
powderhorn
pronghorn
pull in one's horns
put to the horn
raghorn
ramshorn
ram's horn
ram's horn squid
remote horn
saddle horn
saddlehorn
saxhorn
shoe-horn
shoehorn
shoeing-horn
shorthorn
slug-horn
snuff-horn
spikehorn
stadium horn
staghorn
stag's horn
stag's-horn clubmoss
stinkhorn
straighthorn
switch horn
take a horn
take the bull by the horns
tenor horn
tinhorn
tin-horn
toot one's own horn
uterine horn
Vienna horn
Viennese horn
Vladimir horn
war-horn
war horn
yellowhorn
Translations:
lang: Afar
word: gaysa
lang: Afrikaans
word: horing
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒋛
lang: Aklanon
word: sungay
lang: Albanian
word: bri
lang: Amharic
word: ቀንድ
roman: ḳänd
lang: Angor
word: fufung
lang: Ao
word: tezü (Chungli)
lang: Arabic
word: قَرْن
roman: qarn
lang: Arabic
word: قرن
roman: ʔarn
lang: Arabic
word: قرن
roman: garn
lang: Arabic
word: قرن
roman: gərn
lang: Aramaic
word: ܩܪܢܐ
roman: qarnā
lang: Armenian
word: եղջյուր
roman: eġǰyur
lang: Armenian
word: պոզ
roman: poz
lang: Armenian
word: կոտոշ
roman: kotoš
lang: Old Armenian
word: եղջիւր
roman: ełǰiwr
lang: Aromanian
word: cornu
lang: Assamese
word: শিং
roman: xiṅ
lang: Asturian
word: cuernu
lang: Atong (India)
word: korong
lang: Azerbaijani
word: buynuz
lang: Bahnar
word: ake
lang: Bahnar
word: hơke
lang: West Coast Bajau
word: sungo
lang: Bangi
word: liseke
lang: Bashkir
word: мөгөҙ
roman: mögöź
lang: Basque
word: adar
lang: Belarusian
word: рог
roman: roh
lang: Bengali
word: শিঙা
roman: śiṅa
lang: Bau Bidayuh
word: tanuk
lang: Boloki
word: liseke
lang: Breton
word: korn
lang: Bulgarian
word: рог
roman: rog
lang: Burmese
word: ချို
roman: hkyui
lang: Burmese
word: ဦးချို
roman: u:hkyui
lang: Buryat
word: эбэр
roman: eber
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: рог
roman: roh
lang: Catalan
word: banya
lang: Cebuano
word: sungay
lang: Central Atlas Tamazight
word: ⵉⵙⴽ
roman: isk
lang: Chamicuro
word: c̈hepa
lang: Chechen
word: маӏа
roman: maˀa
lang: Chepang
word: रोङः
lang: Chichewa
word: nyanga
lang: Chinese
word: гә
roman: gə
lang: Chinese
word: җүә
roman: žüə
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 角
roman: jiǎo
lang: Chuvash
word: мӑйрака
roman: măjrak̬a
lang: Cornish
word: korn
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: müyüz
lang: Czech
word: roh
lang: Dalmatian
word: cuarno
lang: Dalmatian
word: cuarn
lang: Danish
word: horn
lang: Dolgan
word: муос
lang: Dutch
word: hoorn
lang: Egyptian
word: a-b-db
roman: ꜥb
lang: Erzya
word: сюро
roman: śuro
lang: Esperanto
word: korno
lang: Estonian
word: sarv
lang: Evenki
word: ие
roman: ije
lang: Faroese
word: horn
lang: Fataluku
word: horu
lang: Finnish
word: sarvi
lang: French
word: corne
lang: West-Frisian
word: hoarn
lang: Friulian
word: cuar
lang: Galician
word: corno
lang: Galician
word: corna
lang: Galician
word: hasta
lang: Georgian
word: რქა
roman: rka
lang: German
word: Horn
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽
roman: haurn
lang: Greek
word: κέρατο
roman: kérato
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κέρας
roman: kéras
lang: Greenlandic
word: nassuk
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: tatĩ
lang: Haitian Creole
word: kòn
lang: Hausa
word: ƙaho
lang: Hawaiian
word: hao
lang: Hawaiian
word: kiwi
lang: Hawaiian
word: kākala
lang: Hebrew
word: קֶרֶן
roman: kéren
lang: Higaonon
word: sungay
lang: Hindi
word: सींग
roman: sīṅg
lang: Hindi
word: खाँग
roman: khāṅg
lang: Hindi
word: खँगुवा
roman: khaṅguvā
lang: Hindi
word: खगुवा
roman: khaguvā
lang: Hindi
word: खँगवा
roman: khaṅgvā
lang: Hindi
word: शाख
roman: śākh
lang: Hindi
word: सिंग
roman: siṅg
lang: Hindi
word: शृंग
roman: śŕṅg
lang: White Hmong
word: kub
lang: Hungarian
word: szarv
lang: Icelandic
word: horn
lang: Indonesian
word: tanduk
lang: Ingrian
word: sarvi
lang: Ingush
word: муӏ
roman: muˀ
lang: Irish
word: adharc
lang: Istriot
word: cuorno
lang: Italian
word: corno
lang: Japanese
word: 角
roman: tsuno
lang: Javanese
word: sungu
lang: Old Javanese
word: sungu
lang: Jeju
word: 뿔
roman: ppul
lang: Jingpho
word: nrung
lang: Juǀ'hoan
word: ǃhú
lang: Kaingang
word: nĩka
lang: Kalmyk
word: өвр
roman: övr
lang: Kashubian
word: róg
lang: Kazakh
word: мүйіз
roman: müiız
lang: Khasi
word: reng
lang: Khmer
word: ស្នែង
roman: snaeng
lang: Kikuyu
word: rũhĩa
lang: Kimaragang
word: sungu
lang: Komi-Zyrian
word: сюр
roman: śur
lang: Korean
word: 뿔
roman: ppul
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: stirî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şax
lang: Kyrgyz
word: мүйүз
roman: müyüz
lang: Lao
word: ເຂົາ
roman: khao
lang: Lao
word: ນໍ
roman: nǭ
lang: Latgalian
word: rogs
lang: Latin
word: cornū
lang: Latvian
word: rags
lang: Lingala
word: liseke
lang: Lithuanian
word: ragas
lang: Lokono
word: koa
lang: Luhya
word: epembe
lang: Lutuv
word: kiy
lang: Macedonian
word: рог
roman: rog
lang: Makasae
word: soru
lang: Malagasy
word: tandroka
lang: Malawi Lomwe
word: enyanga
lang: Malay
word: tanduk
lang: Maltese
word: qarn
lang: Manchu
word: ᡠᡳᡥᡝ
roman: uihe
lang: Māori
word: pihi
lang: Māori
word: maire
lang: Eastern Mari
word: сюр
roman: sur
lang: Central Melanau
word: taduok
lang: Moksha
word: сюра
roman: śura
lang: Mon
word: ဂြၚ်
lang: Mongolian
word: эвэр
roman: ever
lang: Nanai
word: хуе
roman: huje
lang: Navajo
word: adeeʼ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: horn
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: horn
lang: Nottoway-Meherrin
word: osherag
lang: Occitan
word: bana
lang: Odia
word: ଶିଙ୍ଗ
roman: śiṅga
lang: Ojibwe
word: eshkan
lang: Church Slavic
word: рогъ
roman: rogŭ
lang: Church Slavic
word: ⱃⱁⰳⱏ
roman: rogŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: рогъ
roman: rogŭ
lang: Old English
word: horn
lang: Old Prussian
word: ragis
lang: Oromo
word: gaafa
lang: Ossetian
word: сыкъа
roman: syk’a
lang: Persian
word: شاخ
roman: šâx
lang: Persian
word: سرو
roman: soru
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Huarn
lang: Polabian
word: rüg
lang: Polish
word: róg
lang: Portuguese
word: chifre
lang: Portuguese
word: corno
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸਿੰਙ
roman: sĩṅ
lang: Quechua
word: wagra
lang: Quechua
word: waqra
lang: Rendille
word: gas
lang: Rohingya
word: cíng
lang: Romagnol
word: cörna
lang: Romani
word: śing
lang: Romanian
word: corn m pl: corni
lang: Romanian
word: corn n coarne
lang: Russian
word: рог
roman: rog
lang: Saho
word: gashsha
lang: Northern Sami
word: čoarvi
lang: Sanskrit
word: शृङ्ग
roman: śṛṅgá
lang: Sardinian
word: corru
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̑г
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȏg
lang: Sicilian
word: cornu
lang: Sindhi
word: سڱ
roman: sṅ
lang: Slovak
word: roh
lang: Slovene
word: rog
lang: Somali
word: gees
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: rog
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: róh
lang: Spanish
word: cuerno
lang: Spanish
word: cacho
lang: Spanish
word: asta
lang: Spanish
word: guampa
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: tutu
lang: Sumerian
word: 𒋛
roman: si
lang: Sundanese
word: tanduk
lang: Swahili
word: pembe
lang: Swedish
word: horn
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠢꠤꠋ
roman: hiṅ
lang: Tagalog
word: sungay
lang: Tahitian
word: tara
lang: Tajik
word: шох
roman: šox
lang: Talysh
word: شخ
roman: šox
lang: Tarifit
word: išš
lang: Tashelhit
word: ⵜⵉⵙⴽⵜ
roman: tiskt
lang: Tatar
word: мөгез
roman: mögez
lang: Telugu
word: కొమ్ము
roman: kommu
lang: Tewa
word: sen
lang: Thai
word: เขา
roman: kǎo
lang: Thai
word: นอ
roman: nɔɔ
lang: Tibetan
word: རྭ
roman: rwa
lang: Tigrinya
word: ቀርኒ
roman: ḳärni
lang: Tocharian B
word: krorīya
lang: Turkish
word: boynuz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوینوز
roman: boynuz
lang: Turkmen
word: şah
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎖𐎗𐎐
roman: qrn
lang: Ukrainian
word: ріг
roman: rih
lang: Urdu
word: سینگ
roman: sī̃g
lang: Uyghur
word: مۈڭگۈز
roman: münggüz
lang: Uzbek
word: shox
lang: Uzbek
word: muguz
lang: Venetan
word: corno
lang: Vietnamese
word: sừng
lang: Walloon
word: coine
lang: Welsh
word: corn
lang: Yakut
word: муос
roman: muos
lang: Yao (Africa)
word: msengo
lang: Yoruba
word: ìwo
lang: Yurok
word: s'echoh
lang: Zazaki
word: qoç
lang: Zazaki
word: aox
lang: Zazaki
word: estere
lang: Zealandic
word: 'oôrn
lang: Zou
word: ki
lang: Zulu
word: uphondo class 11/10
lang: Aramaic
word: ܩܪܢܐ
roman: qarnā
lang: Asturian
word: cuernu
lang: Finnish
word: sarvi
lang: Galician
word: corno
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: şax
lang: Russian
word: рог
roman: rog
lang: Russian
word: рожо́к
roman: rožók
lang: Spanish
word: cuerno
lang: Aramaic
word: ܩܪܢܐ
roman: qarnā
lang: Armenian
word: շչակ
roman: ščʻak
lang: Catalan
word: corn
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: djudju
lang: Danish
word: horn
lang: Danish
word: jagthorn
lang: Dutch
word: hoorn
lang: Finnish
word: torvi
lang: Galician
word: corno
lang: Galician
word: bucina
lang: Galician
word: claxon
lang: German
word: Jagdhorn
lang: German
word: Horn
lang: Greek
word: κέρας
roman: kéras
lang: Irish
word: adharc
lang: Italian
word: corno
lang: Japanese
word: 角笛
roman: tsunobue
lang: Macedonian
word: труба
roman: truba
lang: Māori
word: pūhāureroa
lang: Māori
word: pūwhāureroa
lang: Persian
word: بوق
roman: buq
lang: Persian
word: کرنا
roman: karnâ
lang: Polish
word: róg
lang: Portuguese
word: corno
lang: Portuguese
word: corneta
lang: Romanian
word: corn
lang: Russian
word: гудо́к
roman: gudók
lang: Russian
word: рожо́к
roman: rožók
lang: Spanish
word: cuerno
lang: Spanish
word: corneta
lang: Swahili
word: baragumu
lang: Vietnamese
word: tù và
lang: Zulu
word: icilongo
lang: Zulu
word: ixilongo