BUGLE
What does "BUGLE" mean?
A brass instrument like a small trumpet, used for military and ceremonial calls.
Meanings
- A simple valveless brass instrument used to sound signals and calls. At dawn the bugle sounded reveille across the camp.
- To sound a bugle, or to make a sound resembling one. The bull elk bugled across the misty valley.
- A creeping plant of the mint family with blue flower spikes. Bugle carpeted the shaded edge of the woodland path. technical
Did you know?
- A bugle has no valves at all, so every call it sounds - reveille, the charge, the last post - is squeezed from a handful of natural harmonics produced purely by the player's lips.
- The instrument is named after an ox: 'bugle' descends from Latin 'buculus', a young ox, because the first ones were literally made from oxen horns.
Word origin
From Old French 'bugle', from Latin 'buculus' (a young ox), because the earliest signalling 'bugles' were made from the horns of oxen.
Remember it
BUGLE = 'BUG' + 'L-E'; imagine a bug blowing a tiny horn at dawn to wake the garden.
A little poem
No valves, only breath-
the bugle bends the cold air
into one bright call.
haiku
Wordplay
- The bugle never argues with the drum. It only ever sounds off.
What it teaches
Limit your tools enough and pure skill is all that's left to play.
Quick facts
What does BUGLE mean?
A brass instrument like a small trumpet, used for military and ceremonial calls.
Is BUGLE a valid word?
Yes — BUGLE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BUGLE?
BUGLE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BUGLE come from?
From Old French 'bugle', from Latin 'buculus' (a young ox), because the earliest signalling 'bugles' were made from the horns of oxen.
What can BUGLE teach us?
Limit your tools enough and pure skill is all that's left to play.
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