horn.
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
Meaning & usage
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
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.
An antler.
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
A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. The Ionic volute.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
Any of several musical wind instruments.
An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
hunting horn
A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
A sound signaling the expiration of time.
The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
A conical device used to direct waves.
antenna horn
loudspeaker horn
Generally, any brass wind instrument.
A telephone.
Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
An erection of the penis.
A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
to navigate around the horn
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.
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nóm Proto-Germanic *hurną Proto-West Germanic *horn Old English horn Middle English horn English horn From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu. (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
Of an animal, to assault with the horns.
To furnish with horns.
To cuckold.
To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nóm Proto-Germanic *hurną Proto-West Germanic *horn Old English horn Middle English horn English horn From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu. (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
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