Overview of noun horn

The noun horn has 11 senses

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


• horn -- (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)


• horn -- (a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;)


• horn, saddle horn -- (a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather))


• cornet, horn, trumpet, trump -- (a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves)


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


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


• horn -- (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")


• horn -- (an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound)


• French horn, horn -- (a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves)


• automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter -- (a device on an automobile for making a warning noise)

Overview of verb horn

The verb horn has 1 sense

• horn, tusk -- (stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer")