cornet
cornet is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
- noun. A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
- noun. A certain organ stop or register.
- noun. A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
- noun. A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
- noun. The standard of such a troop.
- noun. The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
- noun. A headdress
- noun. A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
- noun. A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
- noun. See Coronet, 2.
- noun. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cornet:
centro, conter, cronet, retcon, roncet
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