horn
Pronunciation: /hɔːn/
The English word “horn” has 20 meanings listed here.
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.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- The Ionic volute.
- The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- Any of several musical wind instruments.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- A conical device used to direct waves.
- Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- A telephone.
- An erection of the penis.
- A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
Etymology
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras),…
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