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Definition of 'horn'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) horn
one of the hard, keratinous, permanent, hollow, and usu. paired growths projecting from the head of certain ungulates, esp. bovids.

2.  horn
a similar growth, sometimes of compacted hair, as the median horn on a rhinoceros or the tusk of a narwhal.

3.  horn
(not in technical use) antler.

4.  horn
a process projecting from the head of an animal and suggestive of such a growth, as a feeler, tentacle, or crest.

5.  horn
the keratinous substance of which horn growths are composed in vertebrates.

6.  horn
any similar substance, as that forming tortoise shell, hoofs, nails, or corns.

7.  horn
an article made of the material of an animal horn or like substance.

8.  horn
any projection or extremity resembling the horn of an animal.

9.  horn
something made from, resembling, or suggesting a hollowed-out animal horn:
a drinking horn.

10.  horn
a part resembling an animal horn attributed to deities, demons, etc.:
the devil's horn.

11.  horn
Usu., horns. the imaginary projections on a cuckold's brow.

12.  horn
an animal horn used as a wind instrument.

13.  horn
an instrument for sounding a warning signal:
an automobile horn.

14.  horn
a tube of varying cross section used in some loudspeakers to couple the diaphragm to the sound-transmitting space.

15.  horn
Slang. a loudspeaker.

16.  horn
Slang. a telephone or radiotelephone.

17.  horn
a saddle pommel, esp. a high one.

18.  horn
one of the curved extremities of a crescent, esp. of the crescent moon.

19.  horn
a pyramidal mountain peak, esp. one having concave faces.

20.  horn
a symbol of power or strength, as in the Bible:
a horn of salvation.

21. (v.t.) horn
to butt or gore with the horns.

22.  horn
to cuckold.

23.  horn
Informal. to thrust oneself forward obtrusively; intrude or interrupt.

24. (adj.) horn
made of horn.

25.  horn
blow ortoot one's own horn, to boast about oneself.

26.  horn
draw or pull in one's horns, to restrain oneself; become less belligerent.

27.  horn
on the horns of a dilemma, confronted with two equally disagreeable choices.

28. (n.) Horn
Cape,

Definition of 'horn'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) horn
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

2. (noun) horn
one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

3. (noun) horn
a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

4. (noun) horn, saddle horn
a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

5. (noun) cornet, horn, trumpet, trump
a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

6. (noun) horn
any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn

7. (noun) horn
the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

8. (noun) horn
a device having the shape of a horn
"horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns"

9. (noun) horn
an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

10. (noun) French horn, horn
a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

11. (verb) automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter
a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

12. (verb) horn, tusk
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
"the rhino horned the explorer"

Definition of 'horn'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) horn
one of the two hard, pointed objects on top of some animals' heads
a cow's horns

2. horn
a device in a vehicle that you press to make a warning noise
to honk/beep/sound the horn

3. horn
a metal musical instrument played by blowing
trumpets and other horns

Definition of 'horn'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) horn
a hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed

2. (noun) horn
the antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed

3. (noun) horn
any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout

4. (noun) horn
an incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)

5. (noun) horn
something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn

6. (noun) horn
a wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape

7. (noun) horn
a drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle

8. (noun) horn
the cornucopia, or horn of plenty

9. (noun) horn
a vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids

10. (noun) horn
the pointed beak of an anvil

11. (noun) horn
the high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg

12. (noun) horn
the Ionic volute

13. (noun) horn
the outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc

14. (noun) horn
a curved projection on the fore part of a plane

15. (noun) horn
one of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering

16. (noun) horn
one of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped

17. (noun) horn
the curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form

18. (noun) horn
the tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn

19. (noun) horn
a symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride

20. (noun) horn
an emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural

21. (verb) horn
to furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to

22. (verb) horn
to cause to wear horns; to cuckold

Definition of 'horn'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. horn
In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.

Translation of 'horn'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a hard object which grows (usually in pairs) on the head of a cow, sheep etc A ram has horns.
Afrikaans: horing	Arabic: قَرْن	Bulgarian: рог
Brazilian: chifre	Czech: roh	German: das Horn
Danish: horn	Greek: κέρατο	Spanish: cuerno, asta
Estonian: sarv	Farsi: شاخ	Finnish: sarvi
French: corne	Hebrew: קֶרֶן	Hindi: सींग
Croatian: rog	Hungarian: szarv	Indonesian: tanduk
Icelandic: horn	Italian: corno	Japanese: 角
Korean: (소, 양, 염소 등의) 뿔	Lithuanian: ragas	Latvian: rags
Malay: tanduk	Dutch: hoorn	Norwegian: horn
Polish: róg	Persian: شاخ	Pashto: ښکر
Portuguese: chifre	Romanian: corn	Russian: рог
Slovak: roh	Slovenian: rog	Serbian: rog
Swedish: horn	Thai: เขา	Turkish: boynuz
Taiwanese: 角	Ukrainian: ріг	Urdu: سینگ
Vietnamese: sừng; gạc	Chinese: 角
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