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trum·pet / ˈtrəmpit/ • n. 1. a brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone. The modern instrument has the tubing looped to form a straight-sided coil, with three valves. ∎  an organ reed stop with a quality resembling that of a trumpet. ∎  something shaped like a trumpet, esp. the tubular corona of a daffodil flower. ∎  a sound resembling that of a trumpet, esp. the loud cry of an elephant. 2. (trumpets) a North American pitcher plant (genus Sarracenia, family Sarraceniaceae).• v. (trumpeted , trumpeting ) 1. [intr.] play a trumpet: [as adj.] (trumpeting) figures of two trumpeting angels. ∎  make a loud, penetrating sound resembling that of a trumpet: wild elephants trumpeting in the bush. 2. [tr.] proclaim widely or loudly: the press trumpeted another defeat for the government.PHRASES: blow one's trumpet talk openly and boastfully about one's achievements: he refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak.

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