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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1. Jessica Tierney:

   What we see in the paleoclimate record from the last 2,000 years is evidence that the Horn of Africa is drier when there are warm conditions on Earth, and wetter when it is colder.

2. Ginette Hemley:

   Ginette Hemley, senior vice president of wildlife conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, said in a statement. As governments like South Africa continue to ramp up efforts to stop wildlife poaching, these numbers remind us of the urgency to swiftly address this crisis across all fronts, although South Africa remains the epicenter for the rhino poaching epidemic, criminal networks appear to be expanding their reach across the region, and the problem is ultimately rooted in demand for rhino horn in Asia, most notably in Vietnam.

3. Debra Stevens:

   My horn is dead, everything is dead.

4. Jamie Webb:

   I once dared a customer on a hen night to sling a bra to the horn to win a free shot, she did and it has become a tradition ever since.

5. Angie Genade:

   Many poachers and traders of illegal rhino horn have escaped conviction due to a lack of evidence that the courts would accept as beyond reasonable doubt, microchips help in creating the necessary evidence chain in a timely way as you just need to scan the chip to get an immediate result.