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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRUMP'ET, n.
1. A wind instrument of music, used chiefly in war and military exercises. It is very useful also at sea, in speaking with ships. There is a speaking trumpet, and a hearing trumpet. They both consist of long tubular bodies, nearly in the form of a parabolic conoid, with wide mouths.
The trumpet's loud clangor
Excites us to arms.
2. In the military style, a trumpeter.
He wisely desired that a trumpet might be first sent for a pass.
3. One who praises or propagates praise, or is the instrument or propagating it. A great politician was pleased to be the trumpet of his praises.
TRUMP'ET, v.t. To publish by sound of trumpet; also, to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump] v
1: proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet; "Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty"
2: play or blow on the trumpet
3: utter in trumpet-like sounds; "Elephants are trumpeting"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English trompette, from Anglo-French, from trumpe trump Date: 14th century 1. a. a wind instrument consisting of a conical or cylindrical usually metal tube, a cup-shaped mouthpiece, and a flared bell; specifically a valved brass instrument having a cylindrical tube with two turns and a usual range from F sharp below middle C upward for 2 1/2 octaves b. a musical instrument (as a cornet) resembling a trumpet 2. a trumpet player 3. something that resembles a trumpet or its tonal quality: as a. a funnel-shaped instrument (as a megaphone) for collecting, directing, or intensifying sound b. (1) a stentorian voice (2) a penetrating cry (as of an elephant) • trumpetlike adjective II. verb Date: 1530 intransitive verb 1. to blow a trumpet 2. to make a sound suggestive of that of a trumpet transitive verb to sound or proclaim on or as if on a trumpet <trumpet the news>

Britannica Concise

Brass instrument with tubing twice-folded in an elongated shape. (In its broad sense, trumpet may refer to any lip-vibrated instrument.) The modern trumpet has a mostly cylindrical bore, three valves, and a cup-shaped mouthpiece, and is usually a B-flat or C instrument. The trumpet had taken its basic modern shape, with its ovoid loop, by c.1500. In the 17th-18th cent. it employed crooks (removable lengths of tubing) to enable playing in different keys. The valved trumpet was developed in the 1820s. The trumpet has been associated with ceremonial and military uses since the 16th cent. It joined the standard orchestra by c.1700, though it was only selectively used, usually with the timpani. Its brilliant sound has since made it indispensable in a wide variety of ensembles. See also cornet, flugelhorn.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a tubular or conical brass instrument with a flared bell and a bright penetrating tone. b its player. c an organ stop with a quality resembling a trumpet. 2 a the tubular corona of a daffodil etc. b a trumpet-shaped thing (ear-trumpet). 3 a sound of or like a trumpet. --v. (trumpeted, trumpeting) 1 intr. a blow a trumpet. b (of an enraged elephant etc.) make a loud sound as of a trumpet. 2 tr. proclaim loudly (a person's or thing's merit). Phrases and idioms: trumpet-call an urgent summons to action. trumpet major the chief trumpeter of a cavalry regiment. Derivatives: trumpetless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF trompette dimin. (as TRUMP(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trumpet Trump"et, n. [F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a trumpet.] 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. --Dryden. 2. (Mil.) A trumpeter. --Clarendon. 3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. --Shak. That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. --Dryden. 4. (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine. Ear trumpet. See under Ear. Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes. Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force. Trumpet animalcule (Zo["o]l.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor. Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] Trumpet conch (Zo["o]l.), a trumpet shell, or triton. Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. Trumpet fish. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. Trumpet fly (Zo["o]l.), a botfly. Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to ``its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape.'' --Grove. Trumpet shell (Zo["o]l.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trumpet Trump"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting.] [Cf. F. trompeter.] To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings. They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trumpet Trump"et, v. i. To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(trumpets, trumpeting, trumpeted) 1. A trumpet is a musical instrument of the brass family which plays quite high notes. N-VAR: oft the N 2. If someone trumpets something that they are proud of or that they think is important, they speak about it publicly in a very forceful way. The government has been trumpeting tourism as a growth industry... Nobody should be trumpeting about chemical weapons... It was trumpeted that the nation's health was improving. VERB: V n as n, V about n, it be V-ed that

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Horn, clarion, bugle. 2. Celebrator, praiser. II. v. a. Proclaim, publish, announce, promulgate, advertise, blazon, blaze abroad, spread abroad, noise abroad, make known.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To sound one's own trumpet; to praise one's self.

Moby Thesaurus

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