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bugle1

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːg(ə)l/

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Definition of bugle

noun

(also bugle-horn) a brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals: the bugle sounded the charge [as modifier]:a bugle call

verb

[no object]

sound a bugle.
[with object] sound (a note or call) on a bugle:he bugled a warning

Derivatives

bugler

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos 'ox'. The early English sense was 'wild ox', hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting