trumpet

IPA: trˈʌmpʌt

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.

Examples of "trumpet" in Sentences

The trumpet is still sounding, and we still hear the call.
A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.
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