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say it: hawrn
horn is a noun and verb meaning "a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it". It carries 12 recorded senses.
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
game
a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
a device having the shape of a horn
“horns at the ends of a new moon”
“the horn of an anvil”
“the cleat had two horns”
a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for horn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.