ear trumpet

1. 1.

   a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person

   Synonymshearing aid

   Broaderacoustic device

Questions about ear trumpet

What does ear trumpet mean?

ear trumpet means "a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person".

What is another word for ear trumpet?

Close synonyms include hearing aid. 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 ear trumpet a common word?

ear trumpet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.