trumpeter | | |
n. (person) | 1. cornetist, trumpeter | a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet. |
| ~ bugler | someone who plays a bugle. |
| ~ instrumentalist, musician, player | someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession). |
| ~ louis armstrong, satchmo, armstrong | United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971). |
| ~ dizzy gillespie, gillespie, john birks gillespie | United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993). |
n. (person) | 2. herald, trumpeter | (formal) a person who announces important news.; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet" |
| ~ formality | compliance with formal rules.; "courtroom formality" |
| ~ courier, messenger | a person who carries a message. |
n. (animal) | 3. trumpeter | large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated. |
| ~ wader, wading bird | any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food. |
| ~ genus psophia, psophia | type genus of the Psophiidae: trumpeters. |
| ~ brazilian trumpeter, psophia crepitans | trumpeter of Brazil and Guiana; often kept to protect poultry in Brazil. |
n. (animal) | 4. cygnus buccinator, trumpeter, trumpeter swan | large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry. |
| ~ swan | stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult. |
| ~ genus cygnus, cygnus | a genus of Anatidae. |
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