Definitions for trumpet

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trumpet trum·pet

Spelling: [truhm-pit]

IPA: /ˈtrʌm pɪt/

Trumpet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in trumpet (emprttu).

Definitions for trumpet

noun

1. Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
2. something used as or resembling a trumpet, especially in sound.
3. a sound like that of a trumpet.
4. the loud shrill cry of an animal, especially an elephant.
5. ear trumpet.
6. trumpets, any of several pitcher plants of the southeastern U.S.

verb (used with object)

1. to sound on a trumpet.
2. to utter with a sound like that of a trumpet.
3. to proclaim loudly or widely.

verb (used without object)

1. to blow a trumpet.
2. to emit a loud, trumpetlike cry, as an elephant.

Origin of trumpet

1300-50; Middle English trumpette, trompette French, equivalent to trompe trump² + -ette -et

Examples for trumpet

I seized a moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.

The man, full willing, put the trumpet to his lips and blew loud and long.

He had already run through all his personal funds, but luckily the request worked (a trumpet was also traded).

Justices Scalia and Thomas trumpet the value of constitutional originalism, but only when it suits their preferred outcome.

At night jineteras stalk the promenade in search of tourists while a trumpet from a bench serenades the proceedings.

Ere Almamen could reply, a trumpet sounded clear and loud at the gate.

But in more recent wars, where the emphasis has been on “credibility,” not victory, the trumpet has been uncertain, at best.

The preacher's voice rose until it sounded like a trumpet blast.

My wife and I named our son Gideon after Tony had sounded Gideon's trumpet.

The trumpet marine is an instrument that pleases me and it's harmonious.