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bu·gle 1

 (byo͞o′gəl)
n.
1. Music A brass instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves.
2. The loud resonant call of an animal, especially a male elk during rutting season.
intr.v. bu·gled, bu·gling, bu·gles
1. Music To sound a bugle.
2. To produce a loud resonant call, as of a rutting male elk.
[Middle English, wild ox, hunting horn made from the horn of a wild ox, from Old French, steer, from Latin būculus, diminutive of bōs, ox; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.]
bu′gler n.

bu·gle 2

 (byo͞o′gəl)
n.
A tubular glass or plastic bead that is used to trim clothing.
[Origin unknown.]

bu·gle 3

 (byo͞o′gəl)
n.
Any of several creeping Old World herbs of the genus Ajuga in the mint family, having opposite leaves, square stems, and terminal spikes of purplish to white flowers. Also called bugleweed.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin būgula (perhaps influenced by būglōssa, bugloss), from Latin būgillō.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bugler - someone who plays a buglebugler - someone who plays a bugle    
cornetist, trumpeter - a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
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Translations
بوّاق، نافخ في البوق
trubač
hornblæser
kürtös
lúîuròeytari
borazancı

bugler

[ˈbjuːgləʳ] N → corneta mf
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bugler

[ˈbjuːglər] n → (joueur m de) clairon m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bugler

n → Hornist m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bugler

[ˈbjuːgləʳ] n → trombettiere m
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bugle

(ˈbjuːgl) noun
a musical wind instrument usually made of brass, used chiefly for military signals. He plays the bugle.
ˈbugler noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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Band Sergeant Major, Warrant Officer Class 2 Mark Ebdon, from Aberdare, read out extracts from Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen before the bugler played the Last Post and Reveille.
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Bugler Stephany Greening, of the Royal Marines Band Service, described it as the "toughest" task of a military musician.
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Many combinations have played all over the world and I'm sure this won't be the last!" said Sergeant Bugler Lowe, who started playing the drums and bugle at the age of 11 in a local youth band, turning what was a hobby into what he describes as 'a fantastic career'.
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They will, at a family's request, provide a standard and a bugler at the funeral of an ex-serviceman or woman.
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Guests and members of Friends of Honley Library at the society's World War One commemoration with bugler Sam Teale (centre)
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