bugle
bugle Lexical Profile
bugle Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A brass wind instrument resembling a small trumpet, typically without valves, traditionally used for sounding military signals.
"The crisp notes of the bugle rang out across the camp at dawn to wake the soldiers."
A creeping herbaceous plant of the mint family, typically bearing small blue flowers, native to Eurasia.
"The gardener planted bugle as a resilient ground cover in the shaded corners of the yard."
A small, tubular glass bead sewn onto garments for decoration.
"Her vintage evening gown was elaborately embroidered with sequins and sparkling black bugles."
• verb
To sound a bugle or to signal by blowing a bugle.
"The officer bugled the command to assemble before the sun fully rose."
To make a loud, resonant vocal sound resembling a horn (especially characteristic of a bull elk during the rutting season).
"We stood quietly at the edge of the forest, listening to a dominant bull elk bugling in the distant meadow."
• Rhymes for bugle
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English, originally denoting a wild ox, via Old French 'bugle' from Latin 'buculus' (a diminutive of 'bos', meaning ox). The instrument was originally made from the horn of a wild ox and was referred to as a 'bugle horn'.
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