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: a wind instrument consisting of a conical or cylindrical usually metal tube, a cup-shaped mouthpiece, and a flared bell
specifically
: a valved brass instrument having a cylindrical tube with two turns and a usual range from F sharp below middle C upward for 2¹/₂ octaves
b
: a musical instrument (such as a cornet) resembling a trumpet
2
: a trumpet player
3
: something that resembles a trumpet or its tonal quality: such as
a
: a funnel-shaped instrument (such as a megaphone) for collecting, directing, or intensifying sound
b(1)
: a stentorian voice
(2)
: a penetrating cry (as of an elephant)
trumpeted; trumpeting; trumpets
: to sound or proclaim on or as if on a trumpet
trumpet the news
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Examples of trumpet in a Sentence
Noun
the trumpet of a flower
Verb
He likes to trumpet his own achievements.
The law was trumpeted as a solution to everything.
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Jennifer Frederick, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
Nobody was picking up trumpets, violins or guitars for a while.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
But on the day Saleh was fired as head coach of the New York Jets and was immediately being trumpeted as an immediate replacement for Sorensen by an impatient fan base, coach Kyle Shanahan’s evaluation was more kind than brutal.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Noun
In 1943, his father uprooted the family to move to Bremerton, Wash., and then to Seattle, where Quincy Jr. attended Garfield High School and ignited his passion for music by studying composition and learning to play the trumpet.
—Jennifer Frederick, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
Nobody was picking up trumpets, violins or guitars for a while.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
How could a diasporic dharma teacher remain a mystery to professors and mainstream Buddhists while being trumpeted as the singular leader of international Buddhism by his followers across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States?
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
But on the day Saleh was fired as head coach of the New York Jets and was immediately being trumpeted as an immediate replacement for Sorensen by an impatient fan base, coach Kyle Shanahan’s evaluation was more kind than brutal.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Trumpet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trumpet. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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trumpet
1 of 2 noun
trum·pet
ˈtrəm-pət 
1
: a wind instrument consisting of a long cylindrical metal tube commonly once or twice curved and ending in a bell
2
: something shaped like a trumpet
3
: a sound like that of a trumpet
trumpet
2 of 2 verb1
: to blow a trumpet
2
: to make a sound like that of a trumpet
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