speaking trumpet

1. 1.

   a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person

   Broaderacoustic device

Questions about speaking trumpet

What does speaking trumpet mean?

speaking trumpet means "a trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person".

Is speaking trumpet a common word?

speaking 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.