trumpeter
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)
- a musician who plays the trumpet or cornetSynonyms: cornetistType of musician, instrumentalistKinds buglerExamples Gillespie, Armstrong
- (formal) a person who announces important news“the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet”Synonyms: heraldType of messenger, courier
- large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticatedType of wading bird, waderKinds Brazilian trumpeter, Psophia crepitansMember of Psophia, genus Psophia
- large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous crySynonyms: trumpeter swanCygnus buccinatorType of swanMember of Cygnus, genus Cygnus
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. One who sounds a trumpet.
2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
These men are good trumpeters.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
3. Zoology (a) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik. (b) A variety of the domestic pigeon. (c) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
4. Zoology A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54