trumpet

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trumpet/ˈtrʌmpɪt/

▶noun

• 1 a brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone.

  ■ an organ stop with a quality resembling that of a trumpet.

• 2 something shaped like a trumpet, especially the tubular corona of a daffodil flower.

• 3 the loud cry of an elephant.

▶verb (trumpets, trumpeting, trumpeted)

• 1 play a trumpet.

• 2 (of an elephant) make its characteristic loud cry.

• 3 proclaim widely or loudly.

– phrases
blow one's (own) trumpet chiefly Brit. talk boastfully about one's achievements.

– origin ME: from OFr. trompette, dimin. of trompe (see trump2).