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bugler

bugler

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A person who plays a small metal horn in the military or at ceremonies
  • noun
  • /ˈbʌɡlər/
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  • At sunrise, the bugler sounded the call to wake the soldiers.
  • the bugler plays taps
  • the bugler plays
  • the bugler's call

You know, when the the bugler and the bagpipes play, I was happy to be outside.

Examples

  • After the bugler's last note concludes, Lieutenant Charlier steps up to face the platoon.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Why don't you have your bugler blow the charge too?

  • - Bugler, sound the advance.

  • - Bugler, raise those colors to full staff.

  • If you don't mind, we'd like to have our bugler play "Taps."

  • The bugler plays taps.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The bugler blows "Le Caid" as the French tricolor is hoisted up the flagpole.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Buglers and drummers sounded a fanfare to herald the Master's approach.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Butterfield then asked the brigade bugler, Oliver W. Norton, to play the notes and, after listening, lengthened and shortened them while keeping his original melody.

    Blog text (27)
  • But the armed forces don't have enough real buglers to cover the thousands of veterans' funerals each year, and playing a recording of Taps on a portable stereo is felt to lack dignity.

    Fiction book (2002)

Compounds

A plant with bright red tube-shaped flowers in small clusters at the top of stems

Surface Forms

bugler singular
buglers plural

Morphology

bugler = bugle (transparent) = bugle + er

The meaning is directly compositional: a bugler is a person who plays the bugle.

Etymology

The word bugler comes from bugle (a small horn) and -er meaning 'one who'. Bugle was a name for a horn made from an ox or bull, so a bugler is simply 'someone who plays the horn' at a ceremony or in the army.