Synonyms for horn
hɔrnhorn

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   keratin

2. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   stiffy, hard-on, boner

3. hornnoun

   A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

   Synonyms:
   klaxon, hooter

4. hornnoun

   A conical device used to direct waves.

   Synonyms:
   funnel

5. hornnoun

   A telephone.

   Synonyms:
   blower, dog and bone, phone

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. hornnoun

   a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

2. hornnoun

   one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

3. hornnoun

   a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

4. horn, saddle hornnoun

   a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

5. cornet, horn, trumpet, trumpnoun

   a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

   Synonyms:
   saddle horn, trump card, car horn, automobile horn, motor horn, hooter, trump, trumpet, cornet

6. hornnoun

   any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

7. hornnoun

   the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

8. hornnoun

   a device having the shape of a horn

   "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns"

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

9. hornnoun

   an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

   Synonyms:
   trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

10. French horn, hornnoun

    a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

    Synonyms:
    trump, saddle horn, car horn, automobile horn, hooter, motor horn, trumpet, cornet

11. automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooterverb

    a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

    Synonyms:
    bird of night, automobile horn, bird of Minerva, cornet, beak, hooter, honker, trumpet, nozzle, schnozzle, owl, schnoz, motor horn, car horn, saddle horn, trump, snout, snoot

12. horn, tuskverb

    stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

    "the rhino horned the explorer"

    Synonyms:
    detusk, tusk

Matched Categories

1. • Alarm
   • Animal Material
   • Brass
   • Game
   • Noisemaker
   • Pierce
   • Pommel
   • Process

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   trumpet

2. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   drinking-cup

3. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) spur

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   antler, epithema, antenna

   Associated words:
   cornification, cornute, dehorn, croche, gore, crocket

2. hornnoun

   Synonyms:
   trumpet, bugle, cornet, trombone, cornucopia, shophar (Jewish), spur

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "horn":

   corne, hoorn, cor, horns, trumpet, horan, bighorn

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How to use horn in a sentence?

1. Siegfried Fischbacher:

   Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend, from the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried. CELEBRITIES WHO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn (R) attend the 19th annual Keep Memory Alive 'Power of Love Gala' benefit for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health honoring Andrea Bocelli and Veronica Bocelli at MGM Grand Garden Arena on June 13, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Getty) Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days.

2. Mike Knight:

   The extensive poaching for the illegal trade in horn continues to undermine the rhino conservation successes made in Africa over the last two decades.

3. Shauna Saxton:

   I started honking my horn. I started swerving and we got a little ahead of him and then for whatever reason the cars in front of me kind of parted.

4. Crispin Sinclair:

   The main feature is the safety cage with the seatbelt, and the idea is that it's wide enough that it won't go under the side of a lorry, of a modern bus or lorry, so it gets pushed away instead, and also if you're hit by a car it's effectively the same as a car roll cage. It's also got on the final version wing mirrors, indicators, hazard flashers, and a loud horn.

5. Britney Spears:

   Honestly my family embarrassed me and hurt me deeply …. so tooting my own horn and seeing my past accomplishments reflecting back at me actually helped, to the outside world it must seem like I'm extremely insecure and if people really knew what I went through, I think they would understand COMPLETELY where I'm coming from.