trumpet
IPA: trˈʌmpʌt
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.
- (figurative) 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.
- Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
- (US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
- (slang) A vocal political supporter of US President Donald Trump, especially online.
verb
- (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
- (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
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Examples of "trumpet" in Sentences
- The angel trumpets the battle.
- The guitar is the ninja's trumpet.
- The trombone developed from the trumpet.
- The dream is of the trumpet and the ideal is manhood.
- The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet.
- The trumpet is still sounding, and we still hear the call.
- The trumpet is a member of the brass family of instruments.
- The trumpet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family.
- Bring me fife and drum and horn, And let the trumpet blare
- A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.
- The instrument is the ancestor of both the trumpet and the trombone.
- Embouchure collapse is far more common among trumpet and horn players.
- Thus this fifth trumpet is proved to follow the sealing in Re 7: 1-8, under the sixth seal.
- "What sloop is that?" shouts an officer through a speaking trumpet from the American's decks.
- Elijah Lovejoy's innocent blood spoke in trumpet tones to the reformer from his quiet grave by the rolling river.
- The allamanda, or golden trumpet, is one of many tropical flowers that flourish in La Peñita de Jaltemba on Mexico's Nayarit Riviera.
- A small bandy-legged man was George, wi 'a jolly face and a squint, and as he drives up he toots on a tin trumpet wi' red tassels on it.
- We knew, as if it had been proclaimed to us in trumpet tones, that Mr. Malcolm MacPherson must be Aunt Olivia's beau, and the knowledge took away our breath.
- Wordsworth's image of the cataracts blowing their trumpet from the steep hearkens to another trumpet image, one which sounded its notes in a far different context — that of Italian opera — but whose lore would have been almost impossible to avoid in