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bugling

bugling is the present participle and gerund of bugle.

Meaning of bugle

Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
    • “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 128
    Synonyms:
    trumpet

See all 9 meanings of bugle

Noun

bugling (plural buglings)

  1. The act of playing a bugle.
    • […] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments […]1862, Edmund Hope Verney, The Shannon's brigade in India, page 86

Forms of bugling

pluralbuglings

Questions about bugling

What does bugling mean?
Bugling means the act of playing a bugle.
What is bugling the present participle and gerund of?
Bugling is the present participle and gerund of bugle.
What part of speech is bugling?
Bugling is a noun.
What is the plural of bugling?
The plural of bugling is buglings.

Words near bugling in the dictionary

  1. buglet
  2. buglets
  3. bugleweed
  4. bugleweeds
  5. buglike
  6. bugling
  7. buglings
  8. Bugliosi
  9. Bugliosis
  10. bugloss
  11. buglosses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugling (page history and authors); bugle (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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