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trumpeter
A	noun
	1	trumpeter, trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator
				large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚bird ╚aquatic bird ╚swan ╚trumpeter, trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator
	2	trumpeter
				large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚bird ╚aquatic bird ╚wading bird; wader ╚trumpeter ╚Brazilian trumpeter; Psophia crepitans
	3	herald, trumpeter
				(formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚traveler; traveller ╚messenger; courier ╚herald, trumpeter
	4	trumpeter, cornetist
				a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚entertainer ╚performer; performing artist ╚musician; instrumentalist; player ╚trumpeter, cornetist ╚Gillespie; Dizzy Gillespie; John Birks Gillespie ╚Armstrong; Louis Armstrong; Satchmo ╚bugler

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