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speaking trumpet

speaking trumpet noun: a megaphone (of the older, non-electric kind).

Noun

speaking trumpet (plural speaking trumpets)

  1. A megaphone (of the older, non-electric kind).
    • He passed his arm round a rope to steady himself, made a speaking-trumpet of his hands, and suddenly dropped them again without uttering a sound.1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the First/Chapter IV: The Shadow of the Past
    • A short, square-built man, in a rough grey jacket, with a speaking-trumpet in hand, stood in the weather hammock nettings.1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., chapter XXVII, in Two Years Before the Mast

Forms of speaking trumpet

pluralspeaking trumpets

Questions about speaking trumpet

What does speaking trumpet mean?
Speaking trumpet means a megaphone (of the older, non-electric kind).
What part of speech is speaking trumpet?
Speaking trumpet is a noun.
What is the plural of speaking trumpet?
The plural of speaking trumpet is speaking trumpets.

Words near speaking trumpet in the dictionary

  1. speaking out
  2. speaking someone's language
  3. speaking terms
  4. speaking to
  5. speaking too soon
  6. speaking trumpet
  7. speaking trumpets
  8. speaking truth to power
  9. speaking tube
  10. speaking tubes
  11. speaking up

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