<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other.</li><li>An organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet.</li><li>A trumpeter.</li><li>Something used as or resembling a trumpet, especially in sound.</li><li>A sound like that of a trumpet.</li><li>The loud shrill cry of an animal, especially an elephant.</li><li>Ear trumpet.</li><li>Trumpets, any of several pitcher plants of the southeastern U.S.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) To blow a trumpet.</li><li>To emit a loud, trumpetlike cry, as an elephant.</li><li>(used with object) To sound on a trumpet.</li><li>To utter with a sound like that of a trumpet.</li><li>To proclaim loudly or widely.</li></ul>