trumpet

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
• The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
• One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
• A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
• 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.
• A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

Verb

• To sound loudly, be amplified
• To play the trumpet.
• Of an elephant, to make its cry.
• To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
• To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

Related

Similar words

• cornet

Narrower meaning words

• natural trumpet, straight trumpet

Origin

• From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette, from Old French trompette ("trumpet"), diminutive of trompe, from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba, ultimately imitative.
• Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba, Middle Dutch tromme ("drum"), Middle Low German trumme ("drum"), Old Norse trumba. More at drum.