Definitions for trumpets

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trumpets trum·pets

Spelling: [truhm-pits]

IPA: /ˈtrʌm pɪts/

Trumpets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in trumpets (emprsttu).

Definitions for trumpets

noun

1. a showy pitcher plant, Sarracenia flava, of the southeastern U.S., having prominently veined, crimson-throated, yellow-green leaves and yellow flowers from 2 to 4 inches (5.1 to 10.2 cm) wide.
2. 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.
3. something used as or resembling a trumpet, especially in sound.
4. a sound like that of a trumpet.
5. the loud shrill cry of an animal, especially an elephant.
6. ear trumpet.
7. trumpets, any of several pitcher plants of the southeastern U.S.

verb (used without object)

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

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.

Origin of trumpets

plural of trumpet

Examples for trumpets

They were singing, shouting, and blowing whistles and trumpets.

Like another Joshua, he reduced cities by the mere blare of his trumpets.

They call Rosh HaShana (the Jewish New Year) the “Memorial Blowing of the trumpets,” and do not consider it a New Year at all.

The Daily Pic: Francesco Traballesi trumpets that his painting's almost done, after it's finished.

Only they swapped out the guitars in favor of trumpets and trombones.

They have been won by light of day, with banners flying and trumpets sounding.

The faint sound of trumpets came from far points on the Southern line.

How we love that word—cue the trumpets, unfurl the banners, cast a golden light upon the White House.

Suddenly Dell, a company that trumpets its diversification efforts, found itself on the wrong side of the females in the tech biz.

The trumpets sounded, the column broke into a trot and was away.