Horn

Noun

 * 1)  A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals.
 * 2)  The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
 * an umbrella with a handle made of horn
 * 1)  Any of several musical wind instruments.
 * 2)  An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
 * hunting horn
 * 1)  A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
 * 2)  A conical device used to direct waves.
 * antenna horn
 * loudspeaker horn
 * 1)  Generally, any brass wind instrument.
 * 2)  A telephone.
 * 3)  An erection of the penis.
 * 4)  A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.  "to navigate around the horn."
 * 5)  A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.

Synonyms

 * keratin
 * hooter, klaxon
 * funnel
 * blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
 * boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
 * funnel
 * blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
 * boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
 * boner (US), hard-on, stiffy

Verb

 * 1)  To assault with the horns
 * 2)  To cuckold

Derived terms

 * blowhorn
 * bullhorn
 * French horn
 * have the horn
 * horned


 * horn in
 * hornist
 * horn of plenty
 * hornless
 * hornworm


 * hornwort
 * horny
 * shoehorn
 * take the bull by the horns
 * toot one's own horn

Adjectives for Horn
toppling; dolorous; signaling; heavenly; masked; crescent; pellucid; sultry; impatient; lusty; sullen; formidable; barbarous; monstrous; cruel; long; twanging; curving; gilded; distinct; insistent; audacious; clangorous.

Verbs for Horn
bear—; defend with—; develop—; drive—s into; impale on—s; loose—s; pierce with—; pinion down with—; —butts; —drills; — endanger; — frighten; — gore; — lance; — prick; — punch; — puncture; —rip; — spike; — threaten; —wound.

Thesaurus
Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, acoustical network, aerophone, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, beacon, bell, bellyband, blinking light, boiler factory, boiler room, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, bull-roarer, burglar alarm, buzzer, capacitor speaker, catcall, cherry bomb, cinch, clack, clacker, clapper, clarion, coaxial speaker, cone, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, cracker, cricket, crossover network, crostarie, diaphragm, double reed, double-bell euphonium, dynamic speaker, earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker, embouchure, euphonium, excited-field speaker, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, firecracker, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, full-fidelity speaker, gale warning, girt, girth, gore, headphone, headset, helicon, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, hooter, hue and cry, hunting horn, hurricane warning, jockey, key, key trumpet, lighthouse, lip, lituus, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker, lur, mellophone, midrange speaker, monorange speaker, mouthpiece, moving-coil speaker, noisemaker, note of alarm, occulting light, ophicleide, orchestral horn, permanent magnet speaker, pipe, pocket trumpet, police whistle, pommel, post horn, rattle, rattlebox, reed, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, signal of distress, siren, slide, slide trombone, sliphorn, small-craft warning, snapper, sousaphone, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit, steam whistle, still alarm, stirrup, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, surcingle, tenor tuba, ticktack, tocsin, tooter, triaxial speaker, tromba, trombone, trumpet, tuba, tusk, tweeter, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, valve, valve trombone, valve trumpet, voice coil, whistle, whizgig, whizzer, wind, wind instrument, woofer

Etymology
horn:, from (compare  horen:,  Horn:,  haurn:), from  (compare  kern: 'horn',  cornū:,  kéras,  grŭna, srŭna 'roedeer',  surna: 'horn',  sur:,  śṛṅga 'horn'). Hebrew Keren,horns, corner, ray,beam

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, , կոտոշ
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri: buynuz
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: banya
 * Chamicuro:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: сюро (sjuro)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gothic:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: κέρατο
 * Hebrew: קרן
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: horn
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Komi: сюр (xjur)
 * Korean: 뿔 (ppul)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:


 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: tanduk
 * Navajo:
 * Nottoway-Meherrin:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Old Prussian:
 * Persian:
 * Polabian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rohingya: cíng
 * Romani: shing
 * Romanian: : corni, corn coarne
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: cuerno, cacho
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: కొమ్ము (kommu)
 * Turkish: boynuz
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * West Frisian: hoarn
 * Zulu: upondo (nc 11)


 * Bulgarian: рогово вещество (rogovo veštestvo)
 * Czech: rohovina
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: corn
 * Russian: рог (rog)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: korno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: (French horn),
 * Greek: κέρας (keras), κόρνο (korno) , (French horn) γαλλικό κόρνο (galiko korno)
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: corn, cornuri
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: baragumu
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బూర (boora)


 * Dutch:
 * German: (hunting horn),
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Persian: (boogh)
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili: baragumu


 * Catalan: clàxon
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: torvi, töötti
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κόρνα (korna), κλάξον (klakson)
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: claxon
 * Russian: клаксон
 * Spanish: bocina, claxon  , corneta  , fotuto  , pito
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: బూర (boora), హారను (haaranu)
 * Ukrainian:


 * Dutch:
 * German: ,


 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:


 * Greek: καραμούζα
 * Romanian: instrument de suflat


 * Bulgarian:


 * German:


 * Bulgarian: ерекция
 * German:


 * Greek: καύλα


 * : духов музикален инструмент (3)
 * : tanduk (1), zat tanduk (2), tanjidor (3)
 * : cornu
 * : bana
 * : cuerno (1,2,3)
 * : cuerno (1,2,3)

Noun

 * 1) horn (of an animal)
 * 2) corner
 * 3) angle
 * 4) horn (musical instrument)

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) horn

Noun

 * 1) a horn (growth on animals' heads)
 * 2) a horn; object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds
 * 3) a horn; object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car
 * 4) a horn; musical instrument

Related terms

 * älghorn
 * bilhorn
 * bockhorn
 * dryckeshorn
 * hornboskap
 * hornmusik
 * hornprydd
 * kruthorn
 * valthorn
 * ymnighetshorn

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