Meaning

6 senses
  1. A horn used by hunters.

  2. A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series

    Bügelhorn

    рогrog, рожо́кrožók, горнgorn

    a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares

  3. The sound of something that bugles.

    the bugle of an elk

  4. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

  5. A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.

    a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration

  6. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

    Günsel

    дубро́вкаdubróvka, живу́чкаživúčka

    горля́нкаhorljánka, живу́чкаžyvúčka

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Tom couldn't play the bugle at all.

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  2. Tom is learning to play the bugle.

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  3. Tom is trying to learn how to play the bugle.

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  4. Tom plays the bugle.

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  5. I play the bugle.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
plant of the genus Ajuga:
Русский
By meaning 3
music: simple brass instrument:
anything shaped like a bugle:
plant of the genus Ajuga:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
music: simple brass instrument:
plant of the genus Ajuga:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”),

Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).

From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.

From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.

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Forms

plural: bugles
Singularbugle
Pluralbugles

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover:bugleweed

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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