Definition of trumpet
- n. - 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.
- n. - A trumpeter.
- n. - One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the
instrument of propagating it.
- n. - A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or
conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- v. t. - To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise
abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
- v. i. - To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to
utter a trumplike cry.