1 a BRASS musical instrument made of a curved metal tube that you blow into, with three VALVES for changing the note:
a trumpet blast / call
2 a thing shaped like a trumpet, especially the open flower of a DAFFODIL
IDIOMS see BLOWv.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ sth (as sth) to talk about sth publicly in a proud or enthusiastic way:
[VN] to trumpet sb's achievements * Their marriage was trumpeted as the society wedding of the year. [also Vspeech]
2 [V] (especially of an elephant) to make a loud noise
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is trumpet a noun, verb, or something else?
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