bugle
/ˈbjuːɡəl/
bugle noun: a horn used by hunters.
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Noun (1)
bugle (plural bugles)
- A horn used by hunters.
- A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- The sound of something that bugles.
- the bugle of an elk
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene, page 88
- The tongue so rough, that were it licks, it fetches blood. The Greeks used not these, nor Bugles in Physick, not having tried their vertue; though Indian-woods are full of such, yet parts of them are of more efficacy in medicine, (it is thought) than any part of ordinary Oxen.1678, Joannes Jonstonus (M.D., Polonus.), A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, page 31
Verb
bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)
Noun (2)
bugle (plural bugles)
- A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
- How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut […]1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC
- With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.1925, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 20, in Sam the Sudden
Adjective
bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)
- jet-black
- Bugle eyeballs.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
Noun (3)
bugle (plural bugles)
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- Synonyms:
- bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine, common bugle
Proper noun capitalized: Bugle
Bugle
bugle meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
bugle in Hindi
- music: simple brass instrument
- बिगुल bigul
bugle in Urdu
- کوس
bugle in Bengali
- শিঙ্গা
bugle in Telugu
- a bugle or trumpet
- కొమ్ము kommu
More languagesFewer languages
- bugle in Malayalam
- ബ്യൂഗിൾ byūgiḷ
- bugle in Kannada
- ರಣಕಹಳೆ raṇakahaḷe, ತುತ್ತೂರಿ tuttūri
- bugle in Tagalog
- klarin
- bugle in Arabic
- شَنْدْقُورة šandqūra, جُعْدَة juʕda
- bugle in Persian
- شیپور šeypur
- bugle in Thai
- แตรเดี่ยว dtraedìeow
Examples of bugle in a sentence
- And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the woods we'll run.1928, Lora Sarah La Mance, The House of Waltman and Its Allied Families, page 17:
- a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox1992, William Shakespeare, Holger Klein, Much Ado about Nothing: A New Critical Edition, page 145:
- Billionaires wear hoodies and sneakers, not taffeta and bugle beads.2026 January 20, Vanessa Friedman, “The Way ‘Rich’ Once Looked”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
Synonyms of bugle
- trumpet
- bugleweed
- carpet bugle
- ground pine
- common bugle
Forms of bugle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bugles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bugles |
| present participle | bugling |
| past participle | bugled |
| past | bugled |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more bugle |
| superlative | most bugle |
Origin of bugle
Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
Words formed from bugle
- bitter bugle
- blue bugle)
- bugleweed
- carpet bugle
- common bugle
- creeping bugle
- erect bugle
- pyramid bugle
- upright bugle)
- water bugle
- yellow bugle
- bugle-player
- bugle player
- bugler
- bugle scale
- buglet
- contrabass bugle
- Kent bugle
- key-bugle
- keyed bugle
Phrases with bugle
Words that rhyme with bugle
Questions about bugle
- What does bugle mean?
- Bugle means a horn used by hunters.
- What is bugle in Hindi?
- Bugle in Hindi is बिगुल (bigul). See Bugle meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bugle in a sentence?
- And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the woods we'll run.
- What part of speech is bugle?
- Bugle can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bugle?
- Bugle is pronounced /ˈbjuːɡəl/.
- What is the plural of bugle?
- The plural of bugle is bugles.
Words near bugle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bugle (page history and authors); Bugle (page history and authors); bugle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bugle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కొమ్ము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ബ്യൂഗിൾ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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