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trum·pet I. \ˈtrəmpə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English trumpete, trompette, from Middle French trompette, from Old French trompe trumpet + -ette — more at trump (trumpet) 1. a. (1) : a wind instrument consisting of a long cylindrical metal tube commonly once or twice curved and ending in a bell, producing its tones by the vibration of the player's lips against a cup-shaped mouthpiece, having valves that enable the use of all scale tones in its normal compass of written F sharp below middle C as indicated on the treble staff to the C two octaves above middle C, and usually constructed in B flat thereby sounding a whole step lower than the notation indicates — compare bugle, cornet (2) : a metal wind instrument (as the cornet) similar in shape and method of tone production to the trumpet b. : a clarion call or one that utters it < sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of Reformation — John Milton > < a powerful trumpet who stirred the pulse of mankind — M.R.Cohen > 2. a. : a trumpet player < persuaded the trumpets, who were satisfied with playing high notes, to play good notes — Cy Feuer > b. obsolete : messenger, spokesman < be thou the trumpet of our wrath — Shakespeare > 3. : something that resembles a trumpet or its tonal quality: as a. : an 8-foot pipe-organ reed stop with a penetrating tone b. : triton 2 c. : a funnel-shaped instrument (as a megaphone or a diaphragm horn) for collecting, directing, or intensifying sound — see ear trumpet, speaking trumpet d. (1) : a trumpet-shaped flower especially of a plant of the genera Datura, Campsis, or Bignonia (2) trumpets South : any of several pitcher plants having long trumpet-shaped leaves; especially : a swamp plant (Sarracenia flava) e. (1) : a stentorian voice (2) : a penetrating cry (as of an elephant) (3) : a shrill hum (as of a mosquito) f. : a funnel-shaped guide for material (as the fiber web leaving a carding machine)
[trumpet 1a] II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) intransitive verb 1. : to blow a trumpet < practicing soldiers trumpeted and bugled — Charles Dickens > 2. a. : to make a shrill trumpetlike sound < trumpet like … a wounded cow elephant — Charles Beadle > b. : to make a vociferous proclamation < trumpets from his editorials on war and politics — H.S.Canby > transitive verb 1. : to give vociferous utterance to : proclaim loudly < orders trumpeted to us that morning — Kenneth Roberts > < was not going to trumpet his criticisms while on foreign soil — Blair Clark > 2. : to bring to public notice by or as if by the sounding of trumpets < a triumph which must be trumpeted — Sophie Kerr > < Italy's most trumpeted living writer — Time > also : to summon or denounce by or as if by blowing a trumpet |