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Definition trumpet

Etymology

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (�trumpet�), from Old French trompette (�trumpet�), diminutive of trompe (�horn, trump, trumpet�), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (�trumpet�), ultimately imitative. 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.

Noun

trumpet (plural trumpets)

1. (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.
2. In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician who plays the trumpet.
3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
4. (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
6. 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.
7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

Verb

trumpet (third-person singular simple present trumpets, present participle trumpeting, simple past and past participle trumpeted)

1. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
2. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
3. (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
5. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

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