trumpet

noun

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

   “The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.”

   “In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.”

2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

   “The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.”

   “Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […].”

3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

   “The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.”

4. (figuratively)One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

   “I will the banner from a trumpet take”

   “That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.”

5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
6. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

   “The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.”

7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
8. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
9. (US, capitalized, often, slang)A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

verb

1. (intransitive)To sound loudly, be amplified

   “The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.”

2. (intransitive)To play the trumpet.

   “Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.”

3. (ambitransitive)Of an elephant, to make its cry.

   “The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.”

   “The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.”

4. (ambitransitive)To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.

   “The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.”

5. (transitive)To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

   “Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.”

   “They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.”

   “One Sings, the Other Doesn't trumpets a gladsome triumph for feminists who have awaited the advent of unflinching women in film.”

   “An anniversary summit in Washington in July is sure to trumpet a nearly eight-decade record of success.”