TRUMPET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trumpet mean? 

• TRUMPET (noun)
  The noun TRUMPET has 1 sense:

1. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

  Familiarity information: TRUMPET used as a noun is very rare.

• TRUMPET (verb)
  The verb TRUMPET has 3 senses:

1. proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet

2. play or blow on the trumpet

3. utter in trumpet-like sounds

  Familiarity information: TRUMPET used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUMPET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cornet; horn; trump; trumpet

Hypernyms ("trumpet" is a kind of...):

brass; brass instrument (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trumpet"):

serpent (an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake)

Derivation:

trumpet (play or blow on the trumpet)

• TRUMPET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they trumpet    ... he / she / it trumpets   
Past simple: trumpeted   
Past participle: trumpeted   
-ing form: trumpeting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty

Hypernyms (to "trumpet" is one way to...):

exclaim; proclaim; promulgate (state or announce)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

trumpeter ((formal) a person who announces important news)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Play or blow on the trumpet

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "trumpet" is one way to...):

play (perform music on (a musical instrument))

"Trumpet" entails doing...:

blow (exhale hard)

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

trumpet (a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves)

trumpeter (a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Utter in trumpet-like sounds

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Elephants are trumpeting

Hypernyms (to "trumpet" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

The birds trumpet in the woods
The woods trumpet with many kinds of birds

Derivation:

trumpeter ((formal) a person who announces important news)

 Context examples 

Well, if you can’t, we’ll leave the trumpet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do ye think that all these men will have to make a rush to Whitby when the trumpet sounds?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“And sound the trumpets!” cried Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It is like the dead-march of a gnat amid the trumpeting of elephants and the roaring of lions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I knew not what had aroused me, but I found myself out of my bunk, on my feet, wide awake, my soul vibrating to the warning of danger as it might have thrilled to a trumpet call.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to distinguish the words: The least sound would be fatal to our plans.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Father, Mother, this is my friend, Professor Bhaer, she said, with a face and tone of such irrepressible pride and pleasure that she might as well have blown a trumpet and opened the door with a flourish.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had thought it to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his crew to the assault, but I now found that it was a signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of approaching danger.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)