noun Download 🔗Share A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. Examples : "The sheep had two sharp horns on its head. " animal body part biology anatomy Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The rhinoceros's horn was unusually large for its age. " animal body physiology mythology appearance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An antler. Examples : "The deer shed its horn in the fall. " animal body part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects. Examples : "an umbrella with a handle made of horn" animal material substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. Examples : "The blacksmith carefully shaped the anvil's horn to fit the hammer. " utensil item thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any of several musical wind instruments. Examples : "The band practiced playing their brass horns every afternoon after school. " music Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others. Examples : "hunting horn" sound music communication utensil signal vehicle Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle. Examples : "The car's horn blared loudly when the driver was stuck in traffic. " vehicle sound machine communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A sound signaling the expiration of time. Examples : "The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count." time sound signal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A conical device used to direct waves. Examples : "antenna horn" technology sound device Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Generally, any brass wind instrument. Examples : "My brother plays the horn in the school band. " music Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone. Examples : "Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this." technology communication machine device Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (definite article) An erection of the penis. Examples : "He was embarrassed because his horn became noticeable under his trousers. " anatomy physiology sex body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. Examples : "to navigate around the horn" geography area Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư. Examples : "The Vietnamese teacher explained the use of the horn diacritical mark over the letter o to form the letter ơ. " language writing linguistics grammar word sign mark Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). Examples : "The milkweed plant's flowers have delicate horns. " plant part biology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (of an animal) To assault with the horns. Examples : "The bull horned the farmer, causing him to stumble backward. " animal action body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To furnish with horns. Examples : "The farmer decided to horn his new calf with a special kind of horn. " animal body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cuckold. Examples : "The rumors spread quickly that the teacher had horned the principal. " sex family human culture moral Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading