bugle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a simple brass instrument, usually without valves, used especially for military signals

   The bugle sounded a retreat across the battlefield.

2. 2
   verb

   to play a bugle or give a signal on one

   The soldier bugled the morning call before sunrise.

3. 3
   noun

   a long tubular bead sewn onto clothing as decoration

   Black bugles glittered along the edge of the evening dress.

4. 4
   noun

   a low-growing plant of the genus Ajuga, often grown as ground cover

   Blue bugle spread between the stones in the garden.

Common collocations

• bugle call Noun + noun

The instrument name comes through Old French bugle, 'wild ox,' from Latin buculus, because early signal horns were made from horn. The plant name is a separate Middle English borrowing, probably from Medieval Latin bugula.

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