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1. A musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
   - cornetist, cornettist
    
2. (formal) a person who announces important news
   "the chieftain had a trumpeter who announced his arrival with a trumpet";
   - herald
    
3. Large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated
    
4. Large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry
   - trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator

Derived forms: trumpeters

Type of: courier, instrumentalist, messenger, musician, muso [Brit, informal], player, swan, wader, wading bird

Part of: Cygnus, genus Cygnus, genus Psophia, Psophia

Encyclopedia: Trumpeter, Edmonton