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Waldhorn — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • horn noun A hard, pointed growth on the head of certain animals, such as cattle, goats, or rhinos.

Senses

Waldhorn is used for these senses in English:

  • French horn A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
  • horn (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • hunting horn (music) A bugle, being either simply curved (especially in heraldry), or having from one (in e.g. some Roman horns) to three (in many modern musical horns) spirals, on which signals are blown during a hunt.

horn — full definition

  1. noun A hard, pointed growth on the head of certain animals, such as cattle, goats, or rhinos.
  2. noun A brass wind instrument, or an instrument used to signal.
  3. noun A device on a vehicle that makes a loud warning sound.
  4. verb To sound a vehicle's horn.

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