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bugle
1[ byoo-guhl ]
noun
- a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
verb (used without object)
- to sound a bugle.
- (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.
verb (used with object)
- to call by or with a bugle:
to bugle reveille.
bugle
2[ byoo-guhl ]
noun
bugle
3[ byoo-guhl ]
noun
- Also called bugle bead. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.
adjective
- Also bu·gled. ornamented with bugles.
bugle
1/ ˈbjuːɡəl /
noun
- any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Ajuga , esp A. reptans , having small blue or white flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates) Also calledbugleweed See also ground pine
bugle
2/ ˈbjuːɡəl /
noun
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes for decoration
bugle
3/ ˈbjuːɡəl /
noun
- music a brass instrument similar to the cornet but usually without valves: used for military fanfares, signal calls, etc
verb
- intr to play or sound (on) a bugle
Derived Forms
- ˈbugler, noun
Other Words From
- bugler noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of bugle1
Origin of bugle2
Origin of bugle3
Word History and Origins
Origin of bugle1
Origin of bugle2
Origin of bugle3
Example Sentences
His first gig was with a drum-and-bugle corps put together by the parish priest.
Friends said he kept the little gold bugle with him the rest of his life.
Upstairs in the galleries, Jim Costanzo spouted lefty politics between tunes on his baritone bugle.
Here are bugle-horns without bugle-men, and it is a chance if we can find anybody in Greece to blow them.
Du Maurier was one of the great names of British theatre, she regarded ‘a summons’ from him to be a ‘bugle call from Olympus.’
Before the dread significance of these things became clear, a bugle-call rang out.
Incessant bugle-calls from the natives added to the commotion, and thousands of Chinese crowded into the Chinese Consulate.
Non-military readers may need to be reminded that the “last post” is a bugle-call which signifies the close of the day.
Outside, the town lay asleep, and from a gate in the old wall a sentry with a bugle blew a quiet "All's well."
She rode the drill every day, like any soldier; and she could take the bugle and direct the evolutions herself.
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