Definitions for trumpeter

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trumpeter trum·pet·er

Spelling: [truhm-pi-ter]

IPA: /ˈtrʌm pɪ tər/

Trumpeter is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in trumpeter (eemprrttu).

Definitions for trumpeter

noun

1. a person who plays a trumpet; trumpet player.
2. a person who proclaims or announces something with a trumpet.
3. a soldier, usually in a mounted unit, whose duty is to sound the required trumpet calls.
4. a person who proclaims, commends, or extols something loudly or widely; eulogizer.
5. any of several large South American birds of the family Psophiidae, especially Psophia crepitans, related to the cranes and rails, having a loud, harsh, prolonged cry.
6. trumpeter swan.
7. one of a breed of domestic pigeons.

Origin of trumpeter

First recorded in 1490-1500; trumpet + -er¹

Examples for trumpeter

The trumpeter raised his trumpet nearly to his lips, and waited.

I, myself, advise the sending of a trumpeter with a flag of truce.

The trumpeter took off his hat and made a low bow to Alice and her Aunt.

But Puffendorff, the trumpeter, had not leisure to lift the trumpet to his lips: when, hark!

"A great day,—say rather a great day for Ireland," tolled out the trumpeter.

The trumpeter is the earliest, preceding all other birds, with the exception of the eagles.

Why did he get into arguments with petty people, like the trumpeter in his town?

The ducks were not thought of—the trumpeter was to be the game.

The trumpeter raised his trumpet nearly to his lips and waited.

A trumpeter lifted his bugle and sounded a bar of the reveille.