Horn
Definitions
- A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
- A surname.
- 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.
- The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
- A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
- An antler.
- An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.
- The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- The Ionic volute.
- The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- Any of several musical wind instruments.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- A conical device used to direct waves.
- Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- A telephone.
- An erection of the penis.
- A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- 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.
- An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- 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.
Equivalents
57 more languages
Afrikaanshoring
Българскирог
Danskknogle
فارسیبوق
Suomiäänimerkkiäänitorvihipsukankikäyrätorviluuriniemipuhallinpuhallinsoitinsarvistondistööttitorviväkänen
Íslenskahorn
LëtzebuergeschTut
Lietuviųsignalas
Te Reo Māoripihi
Македонскисирена
Монголчагнаал
Bahasa Melayuhon
မြန်မာဟွန်း
Slovenčinaroh
Sesotholenaka
Kiswahilibaragumu
తెలుగుబూర
Tagalogbusina
O'zbekchashox
中文喇叭
繁體中文喇叭
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
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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