trumpet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
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.
Inflected forms:
form: trumpets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trumpets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trumpeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trumpeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trumpeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
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.
gloss: Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
pos: noun
examples: The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […].
gloss: The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
pos: noun
examples: The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
gloss: One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I will the banner from a trumpet take
That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.
gloss: A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
pos: noun
gloss: A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
pos: noun
tags: US
capitalized
often
slang
gloss: To sound loudly, be amplified
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
gloss: To play the trumpet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
gloss: Of an elephant, to make its cry.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.
The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.
gloss: To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
gloss: To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
One Sings, the Other Doesn't trumpets a gladsome triumph for feminists who have awaited the advent of unflinching women in film.
An anniversary summit in Washington in July is sure to trumpet a nearly eight-decade record of success.
Related words: trumpet player
trumpeter
trumpetress
Derived words: angel's trumpet
Bach trumpet
betrumpet
black trumpet
blow one's own trumpet
blow someone's trumpet
Chinese trumpet vine
devil's trumpet
Donald Trumpet
ear trumpet
flumpet
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
trumpetbush
trumpet call
trumpet creeper
trumpet cuff
trumpeteer
trumpeter
trumpetist
trumpetfish
trumpet flower
trumpet honeysuckle
trumpetless
trumpetlike
trumpet major
trumpet marine
trumpet of the dead
trumpet-player
trumpetry
trumpet shell
trumpet-tailed rat
trumpet-tongued
trumpet tree
trumpet vine
trumpetweed
trumpetwood
trumpety
trumpophone
untrumpeted
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