Definitions for bugles

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bugles bu·gle

Spelling: [byoo-guh l]

IPA: /ˈbyu gəl/

Bugles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in bugles (beglsu).

Definitions for bugles

noun

1. a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
2. ajuga.
3. Also called bugle bead. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.

adjective

1. Also, bugled. ornamented with bugles.

verb (used with object)

1. to call by or with a bugle:

verb (used without object)

1. to sound a bugle.
2. (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.

Origin of bugles

1250-1300; Middle English bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn Anglo-French, Old French Latin būculus bullock, young ox, equivalent to bū- variant stem of bōs ox + -culus Examples for bugles

No bugle had sounded, yet the whole camp was softly and diligently astir.

"I could have sworn that his bugle sounded from this very spot," said the huntsman.

Du Maurier was one of the great names of British theatre, she regarded ‘a summons’ from him to be a ‘bugle call from Olympus.’

Again came the bugle note, thin and clear, and yet again it sounded.

Again fortune favoured him, and the triumph belonged to the bugle alone.

I have long wanted a place on a well-edited paper like the bugle.

Just before the bugle blew, Mose received his riding orders.

It was put there by Old Man Curry just before the bugle blew.

Their bugle sang again, but Dick did not know what the tune meant.

Peter Parker was fired from The Daily bugle for digitally altering one of his photographs to stop a bad guy.