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Definition: Trumpeter |
TrumpeterNoun1. A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet. 2. (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet". 3. Large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated. 4. Large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trumpeter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
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Slang in 1811 | TRUMPETER. The king of Spain's trumpeter; a braying ass. His trumpeter is dead, he is therefore forced to sound his own trumpet. He would make an excellent trumpeter, for he has a strong breath; said of one having a foetid breath. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: TrumpeterSynonyms: cornetist (n), herald (n), trumpeter swan (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy; (fop). |
Messenger | Marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman, pursuivant, parlementaire, apparitor. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trumpeter |
| English words defined with "trumpeter": Agami, Armstrong ♦ Brazilian trumpeter ♦ Dizzy Gillespie ♦ Gillespie ♦ John Birks Gillespie ♦ Louis Armstrong ♦ Psophia crepitans ♦ Satchmo ♦ Trumpet major ♦ Yakamilk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trumpeter": Collar of SS ♦ DONKEY, DONKEY DICK, Drum Ecclesiastic ♦ GABRIEL ♦ KING OF SPAIN'S TRUMPETER ♦ Ring One's Own Bell ♦ SPANISH. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trumpeter": Buccinator ♦ Tubicinate. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Trumpeter (1986) | |
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 | The U.S. Air Force Tops in Blue Trumpeter performs a solo during the NFL Players Huddle Party at MacDill AFB, Fla., Jan. 23, 2001. People and aircraft from various bases around the nation to include a Charleston based C-17 "Globemaster" and the. |  | Trumpeter Swan. Credit: Bob Savannah. |
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| "Trumpeter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.96% of the time. "Trumpeter" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.96% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 29.79% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trumpeter": brazilian trumpeter ♦ trumpeter swan. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "trumpeter": serjeant-trumpeter. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
trumpeter swan | 63 | kit trumpeter | 3 |
trumpeter | 52 | 1 24 spitfire trumpeter | 2 |
trumpeter model | 33 | dying trumpeter | 2 |
al trumpeter | 20 | mail trumpeter tuft web | 2 |
trumpeter swan picture | 6 | china.com trumpeter | 2 |
the trumpeter of krakow | 5 | china trumpeter | 2 |
trumpeter tuft | 5 | clock trumpeter | 2 |
hornet trumpeter | 4 | trumpeter vine | 2 |
kit model trumpeter | 4 | rose trumpeter | 2 |
connector trumpeter | 4 | hornbill trumpeter | 2 |
4 mi trumpeter | 3 | trumpeter swan photo | 2 |
essex trumpeter | 3 | ||
trumpeter swan photo | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "trumpeter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trombist, pëllumb i butë (pouter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البواق العازف عليه, بواق, بروجي (bugler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тръбач (blower, bugler, trumpet), тромпетист. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 号手. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trumpetista, trubaè (bugler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | oerkendompap (trumpeter finch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | woestijnvink (trumpeter finch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کرنازن , جارچی (Blazer, Herald), شیپورچی (Trumpet), شیپورزن (Tooter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | torvensoittaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trompette (trump, trumpet, trumpet player). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trompeter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαλπιγκτήσ (bugler, cornetist, tooter), διασαλπιστήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחצרץ (bugler), חצוצרן (bugler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | trombitás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trombettista (trumpet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | トランプ狂 (card freak, trampoline, travel, treatment, trumpet, trumpet skirt), 喇叭手 (bugler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トランペッター , らっぱしゅ (bugler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fer cayrnee, cayrneyder (bugler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpetertray trombeteiro (long-spine snipefish, slender snipefish, snipefish), propagandista (canvasser, propagandist), proclamador, pregoeiro (crier, herald), corneteiro (bugler). (various references) trompetist, gornist la cavalerie, cornist (horner), buciumaş. (various references) трубач (blower). (various references) trubač. (various references) trompetista. (various references) trumpetare (bugler). (various references) trompetçi, tellal (bellman, broker, crier, town crier), borazancı kuşu, borazancı. (various references) khoe khoang khoác lác. (various references) utganwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bucinis, Latridae, Rhodopechys githaginea. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trumpeter": trumpeters. (additional references) | |
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"Trumpeter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Grunpeter, Trombetta, Trumhere, Trumpee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trumpeter" (pronounced tru"mputer) |
| 3 | -u t er | accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, editor, elater, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, visitor. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-p-r-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mutterer, putterer. | |
-2 letters: permute, preterm, reutter, tempter, trumpet, utterer. | |
-3 letters: mutter, perter, petter, puttee, putter, repute, temper, termer, terret, turret, ureter. | |
-4 letters: erupt, merer, meter, metre, murre, muter, peter, puree, purer, remet, retem, rupee, tempt, truer, trump, tutee, utter. | |
-5 letters: emeu, meet, mere, mete, mure, murr, mute, mutt, peer, perm, pert, pree, pure, purr, putt. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-p-r-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: trumpeters. | |
+2 letters: temperature. | |
+3 letters: temperatures. | |
+4 letters: prematurities, pretournament. | |
+5 letters: distemperature, multiparameter, pretournaments. | |
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