horns

noun

plural of horn
as in tubes
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container musketeers carrying their gunpowder in powder horns

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Recent Examples of horns Fans give the devil horns signs at the AC/DC concert on Thursday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026 These horns come from the African greater kudu antelope and are rooted in the traditions of Yemenite Jewry. — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026 Through this grant, New Britain received an influx of cellos, French horns, clarinets, flutes, saxophones, tubas, trombones, trumpets, violins and xylophones. — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 Ever the hopeless romantic, Ted searches for the love of his life through a constant series of twists, turns, diversions, blue French horns, slap bets, and yellow umbrellas. — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026 Train horns are intended to promote safety at railroad crossings. — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 Trucks and semis from all over the southwest came to Richmound, blaring horns and, in one case, ramming the new fence surrounding the school. — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026 Automobile horns echoed here and there in the distance, and as the government railway train departed the station under the bridge, a string of small lights heralded the far-off clacking of its wheels. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 In 1948, running back Fred Gehrke — who majored in art at the University of Utah — experimented with painting rams horns on football helmets. — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
  1. tubes
  2. cornets
Noun
  • Crews can reload its launch tubes after firing, allowing the same hardware to support multiple training events.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Its skyline is dominated by towering smokestacks, hulking arrays of metal tubes and bright flames erupting from flares at petrochemical plants in the global plastics supply chain.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of tubes
Noun
  • Nevertheless, Gadson’s father, Harold, bought him and his brother, Thomas, cornets to play in their school’s drum and bugle corps, Gadson recalled in author Jim Payne’s The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
Definition of cornets

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“Horns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horns. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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