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What does trumpet mean?

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Noun
  1. (music) 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.
  2. In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
  3. The cry of an elephant.
  4. (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
  5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
  2. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
  3. (intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
  4. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
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