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trum·pet Audio Help (trŭm'pĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. Music A soprano brass wind instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch.
2. Something shaped or sounding like this instrument.
Music An organ stop that produces a tone like that of the brass wind instrument.
A resounding call, as that of the elephant.

v. trum·pet·ed, trum·pet·ing, trum·pets

v. intr.

Music To play a trumpet.
To give forth a resounding call.

v. tr.
To sound or proclaim loudly.

[Middle English trumpette, from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe, horn, from Old High German trumpa.]

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Trumpeting

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.

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