English Explanatory Dictionary

trumpet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
  3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
  4. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  6. 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.
  7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
  8. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
  9. A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
verb
  1. To sound loudly, be amplified
  2. To play the trumpet.
  3. Of an elephant, to make its cry.
  4. To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
  5. To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
noun
  1. A vocal political supporter of US President Donald Trump, especially online.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/ En-us-trumpet.ogg

Word forms

trumpet trumpets trumpeting trumpeted

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.

Synonyms

beme cornet flugelhorn

Related words

trumpet player trumpeter trumpetress Trumper Trumpette Trumpist Trumpster

Derived words

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 trumpeter trumpetist trumpet flower trumpet honeysuckle trumpet major trumpet marine trumpet of the dead trumpet-player trumpet shell trumpet-tailed rat trumpet-tongued trumpet tree trumpet vine
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on T Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary