Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: horn
IPA transcription: [h'ɔɹn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: horn
    Meaning: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
  • Synonyms: horn
    Meaning: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
  • Synonyms: horn
    Meaning: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
  • Synonyms: horn, saddle_horn
    Meaning: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
  • Synonyms: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump
    Meaning: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
  • Synonyms: horn
    Meaning: any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: horn, tusk
    Meaning: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"
Usage examples
  • A CAPE HORN GALE.
  • Like a blast from a horn
  • We made our tops heart-shaped of wood, horn or bone.
  • When Sir Galahad had blown the horn he set him down upon a bed.
  • Cautiously the rope was coiled and made fast to the saddle horn.
  • Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn.
  • But get me a horn of ale, for even a vampire is thirsty, you know."
  • Choose which horn of the bull you will, you hang to one of them, and it shall pierce you.
  • But before he left he begged the Bull's pardon for having used his horn for a resting place.
  • While they were walking they heard the hounds and later the huntsman's horn in the distance.