n.
   - a brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone. 
▸an organ stop with a quality resembling that of a trumpet.
 - something shaped like a trumpet, especially the tubular corona of a daffodil flower.
 - the loud cry of an elephant.
 
v.
 (trumpets, trumpeting, trumpeted)
   - play a trumpet.
 - (of an elephant) make its characteristic loud cry.
 - proclaim widely or loudly.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - blow one's 
(own)
 trumpet
 chiefly Brit. talk boastfully about one's achievements. 
    
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. trompette, dimin. of trompe (see trump2).