Trumpeter

n.	1.	One who sounds a trumpet.
	2.	One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. These men are good trumpeters. - Bacon.
	3.	(Zool.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
	4.	(Zool.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidæ, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.

Noun	1.	trumpeter - a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet Synonyms: cornetist
	2.	trumpeter - (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet" Synonyms: herald
	3.	trumpeter - large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated
	4.	trumpeter - large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan

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