- a brass musical instrument made of a curved metal tube that you blow into, with three valves for changing the note
- the shrill blast of a trumpet
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- muted
- blow
- sound
- blare
- sound
- blast
- call
- fanfare
- …
- a blast of the trumpet
- a fanfare of trumpets
- a flourish of trumpets
- …
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- a thing like a trumpet in shape, especially the open flower of a daffodil
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe, of Germanic origin; probably imitative. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.
Idioms
See trumpet in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryblow your own trumpet (especially British English)
(North American English usually blow/toot your own horn)
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