Definition of "trumpeter" []

• Music One who plays the trumpet. (noun)
• One who announces something, as a herald. (noun)
• Any of several large cranelike birds of the genus Psophia of tropical South America, having a loud resonant call. (noun)
• The trumpeter swan. (noun)
• A variety of domestic pigeon having a shell-shaped crest and heavily feathered feet. (noun)

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• ""He started playing rhythmic patterns and vocalizing off a tune's melody," recalled trumpeter Terence Blanchard, the program's artistic director, "and we were floored.""
• "Wherefore to this advice they agreed, and called a trumpeter, put words into his mouth, set him his time, and bid him God-speed."
• "The trumpeter was a lone woman, the noblest of her sex in that"