trumpet

²trumpet

verb

Definition of TRUMPET

intransitive verb

1

: to blow a trumpet

2

: to make a sound suggestive of that of a trumpet

transitive verb

: to sound or proclaim on or as if on a trumpet <trumpet the news>

Examples of TRUMPET

1. He likes to trumpet his own achievements.
2. The law was trumpeted as a solution to everything.

First Known Use of TRUMPET

1530

Related to TRUMPET

Synonyms: advertise, annunciate, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, announce

Related Words: bark, call (off or out), cry; bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette [chiefly British]; knell, ring, toll; blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff; disseminate, spread; disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [chiefly Scottish], manifest, report, reveal, show; advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify; communicate, impart, intimate

Near Antonyms: conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold; recall, recant, retract, revoke

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