A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet.

synonym: cornetist.

Roget 416: musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel; bard etc. (poet) 597; [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer^†, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.    band, orchestral waits.    vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter^†, chauntress^†, songstress; cantatrice^†.    choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].    nightingale, philomel^†, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo^†, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire.    composer etc. 413.    performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization^†.    ... show more

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; boast, vaunt, crake^†; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade^†; gasconade; blague^†, bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting^†; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism^†; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation^†, jactancy^†; bounce; venditation^†, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology^†, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration etc. 549.    vanity etc. 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.].    exultation; gloriation^†, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph etc. 883.    boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^†; blusterer etc. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy etc. (fop) 854.    ... show more

Dutch: trommelduif, trompettist
Polish: trębacz

formal A person who announces important news.

synonym: herald.

Roget 534: messenger, envoy, emissary, legate; nuncio, internuncio^†; ambassador etc. (diplomatist) 758.    marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman^†, pursuivant^†, parlementaire [Fr.], apparitor^†.    courier, runner; dak^†, estafette^†; Mercury, Iris, Ariel^†.    commissionaire [Fr.]; errand boy, chore boy; newsboy.    mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery; post, post office; letter bag; delivery service; United Parcel Service, UPS; Federal Express, Fedex.    telegraph, telephone; cable, wire (electronic information transmission); carrier pigeon.    [person reporting news] (news) 532 reporter, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; penny-a-liner; special correspondent, own correspondent; spy, scout; informer etc. 527.    ... show more

Dutch: verkondiger, aankondiger
Polish: herold

Large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated.

Polish: gruchacz

Large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry.

synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan.

Dutch: trompetzwaan
Polish: łabędź trąbiący