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trum⋅pet

  [truhm-pit]
–noun
1. Music.
a. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other.
b. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet.
c. a trumpeter.
2. something used as or resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound.
3. a sound like that of a trumpet.
4. the loud shrill cry of an animal, esp. an elephant.
5. ear trumpet.
6. trumpets, any of several pitcher plants of the southeastern U.S.
–verb (used without object)
7. to blow a trumpet.
8. to emit a loud, trumpetlike cry, as an elephant.
–verb (used with object)
9. to sound on a trumpet.
10. to utter with a sound like that of a trumpet.
11. to proclaim loudly or widely.
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Origin:
1300–50; ME trumpette, trompette < F, equiv. to trompe trump 2 + -ette -et

Related forms:
trum⋅pet⋅less, adjective
trum⋅pet⋅like, adjective
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trum·pet   (trŭm'pĭt)   
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.

  2. Music An organ stop that produces a tone like that of the brass wind instrument.

  3. A resounding call, as that of the elephant.

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

v.   intr.

  1. Music To play a trumpet.

  2. 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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Cultural Dictionary

trumpet

A brass instrument with a brilliant tone, much used in classical music, as well as in military music and jazz.

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Word Origin & History

trumpet  (n.)
c.1300, from O.Fr. trompette "trumpet," dim. of trompe (see trump (n.2)). The verb is recorded from 1530; fig. sense of "to proclaim, extol" is attested from 1581.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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