Synonyms of the word trumpet


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trumpet

  • n. (music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension,…
  • n. In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
  • n. The cry of an elephant.
  • n. (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  • n. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  • v. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified.
  • v. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
  • v. (intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
  • v. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.

brass

  • n. (uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
  • n. (countable, music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations…
  • n. Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been…
  • n. (uncountable) The colour of brass.
  • n. (uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, military, metonymically) High-ranking officers.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude.
  • n. (slang, dated) Money.
  • n. Inferior composition.
  • adj. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
  • adj. Of the colour of brass.
  • adj. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
  • adj. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
  • adj. Of inferior composition.
  • v. to coat with brass.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Brass in pocket; money.
  • n. (countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
  • adj. (slang) Brass monkey; cold.

cornet

  • n. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key…
  • n. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
  • n. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone.
  • n. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
  • n. A kind of organ stop.
  • n. The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
  • n. (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
  • n. (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to…

emit

  • v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

exclaim

  • v. (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.
  • n. (obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.

horn

  • n. (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually…
  • n. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk…
  • n. An antler.
  • n. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material…
  • n. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder…
  • n. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • n. (countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  • n. (countable) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  • n. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
  • n. (informal, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  • n. (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A…
  • n. (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
  • n. (countable) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn.".
  • n. (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when…
  • n. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  • v. (of an animal) To assault with the horns.
  • v. (slang, obsolete) To cuckold.

play

  • v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
  • v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
  • v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
  • v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
  • v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
  • v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
  • v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
  • v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
  • v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
  • v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
  • n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
  • n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
  • n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
  • n. The conduct, or course of a game.
  • n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
  • n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
  • n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
  • n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
  • n. (countable) A major move by a business.
  • n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
  • n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
  • n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

proclaim

  • v. To excitedly, verbosely and candidly describe.
  • v. To announce or declare.

promulgate

  • v. (transitive) To make known or public.
  • v. (transitive) To put into effect as a regulation.

trump

  • n. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  • n. (card games) A playing card of that suit.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
  • n. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  • n. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
  • n. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
  • v. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
  • v. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
  • v. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
  • v. (transitive) To supersede.
  • n. (archaic) A trumpet.
  • n. (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
  • n. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
  • v. To blow a trumpet.
  • v. (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
  • n. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

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