trumpeter
truhm puh ter
- n a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
- n (formal) a person who announces important news
- n large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated
- n large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry
- His father was a cotton salesman and an ex-jazz trumpeter and piano man, his mother a midwife.
- Louis Armstrong, 71, trumpeter, singer and world-renowned ambassador of jazz (see Music).
- As every trumpeter well knows, to sustain a note of clarity, volume and high pitch through 53 inches of drawn-brass tubing requires the lung power of a bull moose and the finesse .