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SPEAKING TRUMPET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does speaking trumpet mean?
• SPEAKING TRUMPET (noun)
The noun SPEAKING TRUMPET has 1 sense:
1. a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person
Familiarity information: SPEAKING TRUMPET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("speaking trumpet" is a kind of...):
acoustic device (a device for amplifying or transmitting sound)
Context examples
As for Jo, she would have gone up and sat on the maintop jib, or whatever the high thing is called, made friends with the engineers, and tooted on the captain's speaking trumpet, she'd have been in such a state of rapture.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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