Horn meaning

What does “horn” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“horn” is a noun and verb with 12 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.

horn

noun

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

  2. one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

  3. a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning

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

    Synonymssaddle horn
  5. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

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

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

  8. a device having the shape of a horn

    “horns at the ends of a new moon”

    “the horn of an anvil”

  9. an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

  10. a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

    SynonymsFrench horn
  11. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

verb

  1. stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

    “the rhino horned the explorer”

    Synonymstusk

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University