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Definition of Trumpeter
1. Noun. A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet.
Specialized synonyms: Bugler
Generic synonyms: Instrumentalist, Musician, Player
Specialized synonyms: Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, Dizzy Gillespie, Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie
Derivative terms: Cornet, Trumpet
2. Noun. (formal) a person who announces important news. "The chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"
Language type: Formality
Generic synonyms: Courier, Messenger
Derivative terms: Trumpet, Trumpet
3. Noun. Large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated.
Group relationships: Genus Psophia, Psophia
Specialized synonyms: Brazilian Trumpeter, Psophia Crepitans
4. Noun. Large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry.
Generic synonyms: Swan
Group relationships: Cygnus, Genus Cygnus
Definition of Trumpeter
1. n. One who sounds a trumpet.
Definition of Trumpeter
1. Noun. A person who plays the trumpet. ¹
2. Noun. Any of three species of bird in the family Psophiidae from South America named for the trumpeting threat call of the males. ¹
3. Noun. Any of a number of breeds of domestic fancy pigeon in the family Columbidae (originally bred for their peculiar gurgling voice, a prolonged coo called "trumpeting" or "drumming"). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trumpeter
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Medical Definition of Trumpeter
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1. One who sounds a trumpet.
2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. "These men are good trumpeters." (Bacon)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trumpeter
Literary usage of Trumpeter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Victor Book of the Opera by Henry William Simon (1915)
"THE Trumpeter OF SACKING EN OPERA IN THREE ACTS AND A PROLOGUE Text by B. Bunge ;
music by Victor Nessler. First production Leip- sic, 1884. ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee, While at thy liquid prelude, ...
20 Blow again trumpeter ! and for my sensuous eyes, Bring the old pageants, ..."
3. Turkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres and Sacred Traditions by Epiphanius Wilson (1901)
"THE ARCHER AND THE Trumpeter The Archer and the Trumpeter were ... The Archer
boasted of his skill as a warrior, and asked the Trumpeter if he bore arms. ..."