Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)Of an animal, to assault with the horns.

  2. (transitive)To furnish with horns.

  3. (India, Singapore, intransitive)To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.

    , His Precious Gem He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.

  4. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To cuckold.

More definitions
  • stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

Examples

220 sentences

  1. Rhinos are killed by poachers for their horns.

    Браконьєри вбивають носорогів за їхні роги. — deniko

    ruБраконьеры убивают носорогов ради их рогов. — Wezel

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  2. Buffaloes have big horns.

    У бізонів великі роги. — deniko

    ruУ бизонов большие рога. — MikaM

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  3. Tom beeped the horn.

    Том просигналив. — deniko

    ruТом трубил в рог. — Balamax

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  4. Tom honked the horn.

    Том просигналив. — deniko

    deTom hupte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Honk the horn.

    Посигналь. — deniko

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Origin

From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, fr

From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).

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Forms

horns, horning, horned, horned
Base formhorn · to horn
3rd person singularhorns
Present participlehorning
Past simplehorned
Past participlehorned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhorn
he, she, ithorns

Past simpleLesson

all personshorned

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill horn

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • stab or pierce with a horn or tusk:tusk

Word family

127 related words
Derivedairhornalto hornbaritone hornbasset hornbass hornbehornbighornblowhornbuckhornbuck's-hornbulb hornbullhornbutterhornchemical hornchrome hornclown horncoach horncollery horncream horndeerhorndehorndemihorndishorndrinking horn

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

3 patterns
  • honked his horn
  • horn as well
  • honked the horn

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
horizontallyhormonalhormonehornbillhornethorny

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