cornet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

   They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.

2. 2
   noun

   The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

   No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.

3. 3
   noun

   a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone

4. 4
   noun

   A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

5. 5
   noun

   A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.

6. 6
   noun

   A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.

7. 7
   noun

   A kind of organ stop.

8. 8
   noun

   A hollow horn-like growth.

Etymology

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).