trumpet
/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
noun
One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
noun
A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
noun
A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
noun
Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
Example Sentences
- "The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival."
- "In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in."
- "The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit."
- "Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […]."
- "The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters."
- "I will the banner from a trumpet take"
Etymology
From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum. Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: trumpet, trompette, *trumpa
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb