Meaning of horn in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

• 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.

• An antler.

• The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

  Example: an umbrella with a handle made of horn

• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.

• Any of several musical wind instruments.

• An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

  Example: hunting horn

• A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

• A sound signaling the expiration of time.

  Example: The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.

• A conical device used to direct waves.

  Example: antenna horn

• Generally, any brass wind instrument.

• (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.

  Example: Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.

• (definite article) An erection of the penis.

• A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.

  Example: to navigate around the horn

• 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.

• An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

verb

• (of an animal) To assault with the horns.

• To furnish with horns.

• To cuckold.