Bugle definition
(music) A brass instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves.
noun
The loud resonant call of an animal, especially a male elk during rutting season.
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A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
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(music) To sound a bugle.
verb
To bugle is defined as to play a bugle.
An example of bugle is to blow on a short brass horn.
verb
To produce a loud resonant call, as of a rutting male elk.
verb
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A tubular glass or plastic bead that is used to trim clothing.
noun
Any of several creeping Old World herbs of the genus Ajuga in the mint family, having opposite leaves, square stems, and terminal spikes of purplish to white flowers.
noun
A brass instrument like a trumpet but smaller, and usually without keys or valves: used chiefly for military calls and signals.
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To call or signal by or as by blowing a bugle.
verb
A long, tubular glass or plastic bead for trimming dresses, etc.
noun
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Trimmed with bugles.
adjective
Any of a genus (Ajuga) of plants of the mint family, having spikes of white, pink, or blue flowers and often used for ground cover; ajuga.
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A horn used by hunters.
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(music) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series.
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The definition of a bugle is a brass horn instrument like a trumpet without keys or valves.
An example of a bugle is what is played on a military base to wake the trainees.
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Origin of bugle
- Middle English wild ox, hunting horn made from the horn of a wild ox from Old French steer from Latin būculus diminutive of bōs ox gwou- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old French from Late Latin būgula (perhaps influenced by būglōssa bugloss) from Latin būgillō
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).
From Wiktionary
- Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).
From Wiktionary
- Old English
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