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cornets

cornets is the plural of cornet.

Meaning of cornet

Noun

cornet (plural cornets)

  1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
    Synonyms:
    cornet-à-piston, cornet-à-pistons
  2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
  3. An ice cream cone (the shell itself).
  4. (UK, broadly, dated) An ice cream cone (the unit comprising the shell and the ice cream).
  5. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
    • They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...
  6. A kind of organ stop.

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Phrases with cornets

Questions about cornets

What is cornets the plural of?
Cornets is the plural of cornet.

Words near cornets in the dictionary

  1. cornetfish
  2. cornetfishes
  3. cornetist
  4. cornetists
  5. cornetite
  6. cornets
  7. cornett
  8. Cornette
  9. Cornettes
  10. cornetti
  11. cornettini

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