About The Word Cornet
Learn about the word Cornet to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Cornet definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Cornet
| Cornet Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Cornet?
[n] a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cornet: horn | trumpet Related Terms | Find terms related to Cornet: alpenhorn | alphorn | althorn | alto horn | ballad horn | baritone | bass horn | bassoon | block flute | bombard | bourdon | brass choir | brass wind | brasses | brass-wind instrument | bugle | bugle horn | cello | claribel | clarinet | clarion | complex cone | concert flute | cone | conelet | conoid | cop | cornet-a-pistons | corno di caccia | cornopean | cromorna | cymbel | diapason | double-bell euphonium | dulciana | English horn | euphonium | flute stop | foundation stop | fourniture | funnel | gamba | gedeckt | gemshorn | harmonic flute | helicon | horn | hunting horn | hybrid stop | ice-cream cone | key trumpet | koppel flute | larigot | lituus | lur | mellophone | melodia | mixture | mutation stop | nazard | oboe | octave | ophicleide | orchestral horn | organ stop | piccolo | pine cone | plein jeu | pocket trumpet | posaune | post horn | principal | quint | quintaten | rank | ranket | reed stop | register | rohr flute | sackbut | saxhorn | saxtuba | serpent | sesquialtera | shawm | slide trombone | sliphorn | sousaphone | spitz flute | stop | stopped diapason | stopped flute | string diapason | string stop | tenor tuba | tierce | tremolo | tromba | trombone | trumpet | tuba | twelfth | unda maris | valve trombone | valve trumpet | vibrato | viola | voix celeste | vox angelica | vox humana Cornet In Webster's Dictionary \Cor"net\ (k?r"n?t), n. [F. cornet, m. (for senses 1 &
2), cornette, f. & m. (for senses 3 & 4), dim. of corne horn,
L. cornu. See {Horn}.]
1. (Mus.)
(a) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the
oboe family.
(b) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and
furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands,
and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See
{Cornet-[`a]-piston}.
(c) A certain organ stop or register.
2. A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to
inclose small wares. --Cotgrave.
3. (Mil.)
(a) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being
accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] ``A body of
five cornets of horse.'' --Clarendon.
(b) The standard of such a troop. [Obs.]
(c) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British
cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office
was abolished in 1871.
4. A headdress:
(a) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain
professions.
(b) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
5. [Cf. {Coronet}.] (Far.) See {Coronet}, 2.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
- Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
- Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
- Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
- Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
- Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
- Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
- Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
- Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
- Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…