cornet
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- noun
- /kɔrnɛt/
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corneta
- He played a beautiful solo on his cornet during the concert.
- cornet soloist
Examples
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She'd had a crush on a cornet player in her high school marching band.
Fiction book (1993) -
When the time came, I chose the cornet.
Fiction book (1992) -
My father looked down the length of his cornet at them.
Fiction book (1996) -
All of the really great cornet players were Irish.
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I distinctly remember the exact day during the next year that my mother bought me a new cornet.
Academic text (2000) -
He's a marvelous jazz cornet player.
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The band sometimes also used post-horn, trumpet, and cornet.
Academic text (2015) -
More importantly, they helped nurture him and even loaned him the money to buy his first cornet.
Blog text (13) -
The group consists of a fiddler, a cornet player, a fifer, and the fourth has an upright piano.
Fiction book (1994) -
When Awkerman returned home to Mount Union, Pennsylvania, she contacted Captain Nissly to see if there was an opening for a cornet player.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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A musical instrument played by blowing and making your lips buzz on a metal mouthpiece, like a trumpet or trombone
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Etymology
The word cornet comes from the Latin cornu ('horn') plus a French small ending -et ('small'), so it originally meant 'little horn'. That's why a cornet is a small brass instrument that looks and sounds like a little trumpet.