trumpet
English

A trumpet (sense 1).
Etymology
From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”). Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Noun
trumpet (plural trumpets)
- (music) 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.
- The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
- In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician who plays the trumpet.
- The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
- The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
- (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- Dryden
- That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.
- 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.
- 1974, O.T.A., Proceedings (page 4)
- The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.
- 1974, O.T.A., Proceedings (page 4)
- A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
Synonyms
- (musical instrument): cornet
Hyponyms
- (musical instrument): natural trumpet, straight trumpet
Derived terms
- natural trumpet
- straight trumpet
- trumpeter, trumpetist
Translations
brass instrument
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musician playing a trumpet
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elephant noise
References
- 2009. Tipbook Trumpet and Trombone, Flugelhorn and Cornet: The Complete Guide. Hugo Pinksterboer. Pg. 141.
Verb
trumpet (third-person singular simple present trumpets, present participle trumpeting, simple past and past participle trumpeted)
- (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
- The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
- (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
- Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.
- (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- 2017, Gerhard Gehrke, Nineveh's Child
- The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
- 2017, Gerhard Gehrke, Nineveh's Child
- (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
- Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
- Francis Bacon
- They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
Translations
sound loudly
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play the instrument
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make an elephant call
proclaim loudly
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French trompette; equivalent to trumpe + -et.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtrumpɛt/, /ˈtrumpit/
Noun
trumpet (plural trumpetes)
- A trumpet; a small brass instrument.
- One who uses or plays such an instrument.
References
- “trompet, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-16.
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