Bugle

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːɡəl

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Latin buculus ("young bull; ox; steer").

Noun

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
4. anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end

Synonyms

• (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnel

Hypernyms

• musical instrument

Derived terms

• bugler

Coordinate terms

• trumpet

Full definition of bugle

Verb

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

Synonyms

• trumpet

Late Latin bugulus ("a woman's ornament").

Noun

1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
• 1925, P._G._Wodehouse, , Random House, London:2007, p. 207.With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

Adjective

1. jet-black
• ShakespeareBugle eyeballs.

Old English

Noun

1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

Anagrams

• bulge