Meaning

1 senses

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

More definitions
  • play on a bugle

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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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”).

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Forms

bugles, bugling, bugled, bugled
Base formbugle · to bugle
3rd person singularbugles
Present participlebugling
Past simplebugled
Past participlebugled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybugle
he, she, itbugles

Past simpleLesson

all personsbugled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bugled
he, she, ithas bugled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bugle

Synonyms

1 synonyms
trumpetB1

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbugler

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
buggerbuggybuildA1builderB1buildingA1
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