TRUMPETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trumpeter mean? 

• TRUMPETER (noun)
  The noun TRUMPETER has 4 senses:

1. a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet

2. (formal) a person who announces important news

3. large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated

4. large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry

  Familiarity information: TRUMPETER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUMPETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cornetist; trumpeter

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

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

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

bugler (someone who plays a bugle)

Instance hyponyms:

Armstrong; Louis Armstrong; Satchmo (United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971))

Dizzy Gillespie; Gillespie; John Birks Gillespie (United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993))

Derivation:

trumpet (play or blow on the trumpet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(formal) a person who announces important news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

herald; trumpeter

Context example:

the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet

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

courier; messenger (a person who carries a message)

Domain usage:

formality (compliance with formal rules)

Derivation:

trumpet (utter in trumpet-like sounds)

trumpet (proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

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

Brazilian trumpeter; Psophia crepitans (trumpeter of Brazil and Guiana; often kept to protect poultry in Brazil)

Holonyms ("trumpeter" is a member of...):

genus Psophia; Psophia (type genus of the Psophiidae: trumpeters)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cygnus buccinator; trumpeter; trumpeter swan

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

swan (stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult)

Holonyms ("trumpeter" is a member of...):

Cygnus; genus Cygnus (a genus of Anatidae)

 Context examples 

Pass the word, said Sir Nigel, that no man shall stand to arms or draw his bow-string until my trumpeter shall sound.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind the bowmen strode two trumpeters blowing upon nakirs, and two drummers in parti-colored clothes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be strange else, seeing that all the great lords of England and of Gascony are within the walls, and each would have his trumpeter blow as loud as his neighbor, lest it might be thought that his dignity had been abated.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)