Definition of: trumpet

(trum′pit) noun
1. A soprano wind instrument with a flaring bell and a long metal tube. The tube was formerly always straight, but now may recurve singly or doubly.
2. A powerful reed stop in an organ.
3. Something resembling a trumpet in form.
4. A tube for collecting and conducting sounds to the ear; an ear trumpet.
5. A loud penetrating sound like that of a trumpet; trumpeting.
6. plural A pitcherplant (Sarracenia flava) of the southern United States having trumpet–shaped leaves.
7. Obs. A trumpeter.
—v.t.
1. To sound or proclaim by or as by trumpet; publish abroad.
—v.i.
2. To blow a trumpet.
3. To give forth a sound as if from a trumpet. [<OF trompette, dim. of trompe TRUMP²]
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