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cornet
(kɔːʳnɪt, US kɔːʳnet)
Word forms: plural cornets
1. variable noun
A cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family that looks like a small trumpet.
2. countable noun
An ice cream cornet is a soft thin biscuit shaped like a cone with ice cream in it.
[British] cornet in British English
(ˈkɔːnɪt)
noun
1. Also called: cornet à pistons (ˈkɔːnɪt ə ˈpɪstənz, French kɔrnɛ a pistɔ̃)
a three-valved brass instrument of the trumpet family. Written range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E below middle C. It is a transposing instrument in B flat or A
2.
a person who plays the cornet
3. a variant spelling of cornett
4.
a cone-shaped paper container for sweets, etc
5. British
a cone-shaped wafer container for ice cream
6.
(formerly) the lowest rank of commissioned cavalry officer in the British army
7. South Africa short for field cornet
8.
a starched and wired muslin or lace cap worn by women from the 12th to the 15th centuries
9.
the large white headdress of some nuns
Word origin
C14: from Old French, from corn, from Latin cornū horncornet in American English
(kɔrˈnɛt; British ˈkɔrnɪt)
noun
1.
a brass instrument similar to the trumpet in pitch and construction but more compact and with a deeper mouthpiece
2.
a.
a piece of paper twisted like a cone, for holding sugar, candy, etc.
b.
a cone-shaped piece of pastry, often filled as with whipped cream
3.
the spreading, white headdress of a Sister of Charity
Word origin
ME & OFr, dim. of corn, a horn < L cornu, hornImage ofcornet
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British English: cornet /ˈkɔːnɪt/ NOUN
A cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family that looks like a small trumpet.
- American English: cornet
- Arabic: بُوق
- Brazilian Portuguese: corneta
- Chinese: 短号
- Croatian: kornet
- Czech: kornet
- Danish: kornet
- Dutch: kornet
- European Spanish: corneta
- Finnish: kornetti
- French: cornet à pistons
- German: Kornett
- Greek: κορνέτα
- Italian: cornetta
- Japanese: コルネット
- Korean: 코넷
- Norwegian: kornett
- Polish: kornet
- European Portuguese: corneta
- Romanian: cornet
- Russian: корнет музыкальный инструмент
- Latin American Spanish: corneta
- Swedish: glasstrut
- Thai: แตรทองเหลืองขนาดเล็ก
- Turkish: kornet
- Ukrainian: корнет
- Vietnamese: kèn cornet
Chinese translation of 'cornet'
cornet
(ˈkɔːnɪt)
n (c/u)
-
短号(號)
(duǎnhào) (把, bǎ)⇒ He plays the cornet.
他会吹短号。
(Tā huì chuī duǎnhào.)- ( ice cream)
锥(錐)形蛋卷
(zhuīxíng dànjuǎn) (个(個), gè)
- ( ice cream)