Horn meaning
A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
noun
(of an animal) To assault with the horns.
verb
The definition of a horn is a structure coming out of an animal's head, or a beeping device on a vehicle.
An example of a horn is what grows out of a ram's head.
An example of a horn is what is on a steering wheel to alert other drivers to danger.
noun
One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
noun
Something having the shape of a horn, especially:
- A horn of plenty; a cornucopia.
- Either of the ends of a new moon.
- The point of an anvil.
- The pommel of a saddle.
- An ear trumpet.
- A device for projecting sound waves, as in a loudspeaker.
- A hollow, metallic electromagnetic transmission antenna with a circular or rectangular cross section.
noun
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(slang) A telephone.
noun
To join without being invited; intrude. Used with in.
verb
Anything that protrudes naturally from the head of an animal, as one of the tentacles of a snail, a tuft of feathers on certain birds, etc.
noun
A horn or antler figuratively attributed to a cuckold.
noun
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Anything shaped like or suggesting a horn.
- A peninsula or cape.
- Either end of a crescent.
- The pointed part of an anvil.
- A projection above the pommel of a cowboy's saddle.
noun
A device with a kind of blaring sound for signaling or warning.
noun
(bible) An emblem of glory, strength, or honor.
noun
(geol.) A jagged mountain peak resulting from the erosion of several cirques, as the Matterhorn in the Alps.
noun
To strike, butt, or gore with the horns.
verb
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To furnish with horns.
verb
(archaic) To cuckold.
verb
Made of horn.
Horn-rimmed glasses.
adjective
(place) Cape on an island (Horn Island) in Tierra del Fuego, Chile: southernmost point of South America.
proper name
One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
noun
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A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
noun
Either of the bony growths projecting from the upper part of the head of certain hoofed mammals, such as cattle, sheep, and goats. The horns of these animals are never shed, and they consist of bone covered by keratin.
A hard growth that looks like a horn, such as an antler or a growth on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros. Unlike true horns, antlers are shed yearly and have a velvety covering, and the horns of a rhinoceros are made not of bone but of hairy skin fused with keratin.
The hard durable substance that forms the outer covering of true horns. It consists of keratin.
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
noun
(uncountable) 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.
noun
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(countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
Hunting horn.
noun
(slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
noun
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(countable) 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.
noun
(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
noun
Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.
pronoun
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A container, such as a powder horn, made from a horn.
noun
(informal) blow
- To brag or boast about oneself.
idiom
(informal) draw
- To restrain oneself; draw back.
- To retreat from a previously taken position, view, or stance.
- To economize.
idiom
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on the horns of a dilemma
- Faced with two equally undesirable alternatives.
idiom
around the horn
- (thrown) from third base to second to first in trying for a double play
idiom
blow one's own horn
- to praise oneself; boast
idiom
horn in (on)
- to intrude or meddle (in)
idiom
lock horns
- to have a disagreement or conflict
idiom
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on the horns of a dilemma
- having to make a choice between two things, both unpleasant
idiom
pull in one's horns
- to hold oneself back; restrain one's impulses or efforts
- to back down; become less dogmatic, positive, zealous, etc.
idiom
the horn
- the telephone
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of horn
- Middle English from Old English ker-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną (compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic (haurn)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-, (compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (keras), Old Church Slavonic сръна (srŭna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script?] (surna, “horn”)[script?], Persian sur, Sanskrit शृङ्ग (ṡṛṅga, “horn”)).
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