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Trumpet

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈtɹʌmpɪt

Definitions

  1. A vocal political supporter of US President Donald Trump, especially online.
  2. 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.
  3. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
  4. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
  5. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  6. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
  7. 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.
  8. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
  9. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
  10. A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

Equivalents

52 more languages
العربيةالبوقبوقشبورنفير
Българскиреватромпет
Catalàtrompeta
Esperantotrumpeto
فارسیترومپت
Gàidhligstoc
Bahasa Indonesiasangkakalatrompet
ភាសាខ្មែរត្រែ
한국어트럼펫
Latviešutrompete
Te Reo Māoripūkāea
Македонскитруба
Монголбүрээ
Bahasa Melayutrompet
Maltitromba
မြန်မာတံပိုး
Românătrompetă
Slovenčinatrúba
Slovenščinatrobenta
Kiswahilitarumbeta
Türkçetrompet
Українськатруба
Tiếng Việtkén

Examples

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

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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