Meaning of Horn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
   countable
2. Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
3. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
4. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
   countable, uncountable
5. The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
6. A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
   countable, uncountable
7. An antler.
   countable, uncountable
8. An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.
   countable, uncountable
9. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
   uncountable
10. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
    countable, uncountable
11. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
    countable, uncountable
12. One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
    countable, uncountable
13. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
    countable, uncountable
14. The Ionic volute.
    countable, uncountable
15. The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
    countable, uncountable
16. A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
    countable, uncountable
17. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
    countable, uncountable
18. Any of several musical wind instruments.
    countable
19. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
    countable
20. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
    countable
21. A sound signaling the expiration of time.
    countable, uncountable
22. A conical device used to direct waves.
    countable
23. Generally, any brass wind instrument.
    countable, informal
24. A telephone.
    countable, slang
25. An erection of the penis.
    countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar, with-definite-article
26. A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
    countable
27. A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
    countable
28. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
    countable, uncountable
29. In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“an umbrella with a handle made of horn”

“horns of mead and ale”

“I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength.”

“[W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.”

“Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar”

“hunting horn”

“The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.”

“antenna horn”

“loudspeaker horn”

“Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.”

“to navigate around the horn”

“But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker.”

“Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.”

“At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement.”

“[…] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere.”

“The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere.”

“Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa.”

CEFR level