horn

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôn, IPA: /hɔːn/
• (US) enPR: hôrn, IPA: /hɔɹn/
• (Dublin English, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈhɒːɹn/
• (Dublin English) IPA: /ˈhoːrn/, /ˈhoːɻn/

Noun

horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)

1. (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
2. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
3. An antler.
4. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
   • Synonym: keratin
   • an umbrella with a handle made of horn
5. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
   1. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
   2. (architecture) The Ionic volute.
   3. (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
   4. (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
   5. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
6. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
7. (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
   • hunting horn
8. (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
   • Synonyms: hooter, klaxon
9. (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
   • The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
10. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
    • Synonym: funnel
    • antenna horn
    • loudspeaker horn
11. (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
12. (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
    • Synonyms: blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
    • Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
13. (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
    • Synonyms: boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
14. (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
    • Synonym: peninsula
    • to navigate around the horn
15. (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
16. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
17. (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.

Verb

horn (third-person singular simple present horns, present participle horning, simple past and past participle horned)

1. (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
2. (transitive) To furnish with horns.
3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• NRHO, Rohn

Noun

horn n (singular definite hornet, plural indefinite horn)

1. horn

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔtn/

Noun

horn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)

1. horn (of an animal)
2. (music) horn
3. corner
4. speaker (on a telephone)
5. angle

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔrtn/

Noun

horn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)

1. horn (of an animal)
2. fin (of a cetacean or other marine animal)
3. corner
4. angle
5. (music) horn

Alternative forms

• horne, orn

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔrn/, /hoːrn/

Noun

horn (plural hornes)

1. A horn (keratinous growth):
   1. Horn as a material or in crafts.
   2. (rare) The metaphorical horn of a cuckold.
   3. (rare, heraldry) A heraldic depiction of a horn.
2. A projecting extremity or point:
   1. A point of a crescent moon.
   2. A point of a woman's hairstyle.
3. A horn (musical instrument)
4. A bodily extension, such as a claw.
5. A horn-shaped container (especially as a glass)
6. (rare) A section of an army or band.
7. (rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
8. (rare, collectively) Horned bovids.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /huːrn/, [ˈhuːɳ]

Noun

horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna or hornene)

1. (zoology) horn
2. (music) horn
3. (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)

Alternative forms

• haurn; hønn (hødn, hønnj); henn

Pronunciation

• IPA: /horn/, /honː/
• (segmentation) IPA: /hodn/
• (palatalisation) IPA: /hoɲː/

Noun

horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna)

1. (zoology) horn
2. (music) horn
3. (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /xorn/, [horˠn]

Noun

horn m

1. horn
2. antler
3. (horn-shaped) gable

Noun

horn n

1. horn

Noun

horn n (genitive horns, plural horn)

1. horn (of an animal)
2. horn (to drink from)
3. horn (musical instrument)
4. corner
5. angle

Noun

horn n

1. horn

Noun

horn n (plural hornuri)

1. chimney
   • Synonyms: cămin, coș, fumar, hogeag

Noun

horn n

1. horn (growth on animals' heads)
2. horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)
3. horn (object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car)
4. (music) horn