adj
Meaning 1
jet-black
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Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
jet-black
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name
A village in Treverbyn parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0158).
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noun
A horn used by hunters.
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noun
A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
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Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Broader terms: musical instrument, wind instrument, brass instrument
noun
The sound of something that bugles.
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noun
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
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noun
A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
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Topics: fashion, lifestyle
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noun
A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
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Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine, common bugle
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verb
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
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noun
a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
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Broader terms: brass, brass instrument
noun
a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
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Broader terms: bead
noun
any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
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Synonyms: bugleweed
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: creeping bugle, Ajuga reptans, erect bugle, blue bugle, Ajuga genevensis, pyramid bugle, Ajuga pyramidalis, ground pine, yellow bugle, Ajuga chamaepitys
verb
play on a bugle
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Broader terms: play, spiel
History
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.
Probably named after the Bugle Inn.
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman buglebor. Middle English bugle English bugle Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
Across languages
79 source translations are retained for this English entry.