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Definition of Trumpet

1. Noun. A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.

2. Verb. Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet. "Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty"

3. Verb. Play or blow on the trumpet.

4. Verb. Utter in trumpet-like sounds. "The woods trumpet with many kinds of birds "; "Elephants are trumpeting"

Definition of Trumpet

1. n. A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

2. v. t. To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

3. v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Definition of Trumpet

1. Noun. A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat. ¹

2. Noun. In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet. ¹

3. Noun. The cry of an elephant. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To play the trumpet. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trumpet

1. to sound on a trumpet (a brass wind instrument) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Trumpet

1. 1. A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone. "The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms." (Dryden) 2. A trumpeter. 3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. "That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . To be the trumpet of his praises." (Dryden) 4. A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. Ear trumpet. See Ear. Sea trumpet See Trumpetwood. Origin: F. Trompette, dim. Of trompe. See Trump a trumpet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trumpet

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trumped trumped-up trumped-up(a) trumperies trumpery trumpet (current term) trumpet-wood trumpet arch trumpet creeper trumpet flower

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Literary usage of Trumpet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. King Lear by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Sound, trumpet!* [A trumpet sounds, no Her. [Reads] If any man of quality or degree within the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed Earl of ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The slide trumpet appears to have been re-invented in the ... Slide trumpet i6th century. The slide trumpet is still used in England in a somewhat modified ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"Pedal notes seem to be unknown on the trumpet.1 [In the slide trumpet the slide is во placed and used as to be limited to an extension giving one ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The trumpet class of wind instruments can hardly be designated now as musical instruments in the strictest sense of the word, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"trumpet, a musical wind-instrument with a flaring mouth, generally made of brass, ... The orchestral or slide trumpet consists of a tube about five and ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The trumpet sheds (literally, " sprinkles ") its music like a kind of vivifying light on the darkness of those far-distributed tombs. ..."

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