bugle

1. 1.

   play on a bugle

   Broaderplay

   music

Other forms of bugle

plural

bugles·

past tense

bugled·

present participle

bugling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bugle

What does bugle mean?

bugle means "a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bugle?

bugle has 2 syllables: bu-gle. The stress falls on "bu". In IPA it is /ˈbjuɡəl/.

What is another word for bugle?

Close synonyms include bugleweed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bugle a common word?

bugle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.