Definitions for bugleˈbyu gəl

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

bu•gleˈbyu gəl(n.; v.)-gled, -gling.

  1. (n.)a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet but usu. without keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.

    Category: Music and Dance

  2. (v.i.)to sound a bugle.

    Category: Music and Dance

  3. (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.

    Category: Animal Behavior

Origin of bugle:

1250–1300; ME bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn < AF, OF < L būculus bullock, young ox =bū- var. s. of bōs ox +-culus -cle1

bu′gler(n.)

bu•gleˈbyu gəl(n.)

  1. any of various low-growing plants belonging to the genus Ajuga, of the mint family, usu. having blue flowers.

    Category: Plants

Origin of bugle:

1225–75; ME < OF < ML bugula a kind of plant

bu•gleˈbyu gəl(n.)

  1. Also called bu′gle bead`. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.

    Category: Clothing

Origin of bugle:

1570–80; of obscure orig.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bugle(noun)

    a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares

  2. bugle, bugleweed(noun)

    any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover

  3. bugle(verb)

    a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration

  4. bugle(verb)

    play on a bugle

Wiktionary

  1. bugle(Noun)

    a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series

  2. bugle(Noun)

    the often cultivated plant Lamiaceae

  3. bugle(Noun)

    anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end

  4. bugle(Noun)

    a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim

  5. bugle(Verb)

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

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bugle(noun)

    a sort of wild ox; a buffalo

  2. Bugle(noun)

    a horn used by hunters

  3. Bugle(noun)

    a copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle

  4. Bugle(noun)

    an elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black

  5. Bugle(adj)

    jet black

  6. Bugle(noun)

    a plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World


Translations for bugle

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

bugle(noun)

a musical wind instrument usually made of brass, used chiefly for military signals

He plays the bugle.

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