Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word horn. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in horn.
Definitions and meaning of horn
horn
Etymology
From Middle Englishhorn, horne, from Old Englishhorn, from Proto-West Germanic*horn, from Proto-Germanic*hurną. Compare West Frisianhoarn, Dutchhoorn, Low GermanHoorn, horn, GermanHorn, Danish and Swedishhorn, Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽(haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂-(“head, horn”). Compare Bretonkern(“horn”), Latincornū, Ancient Greekκέρας(kéras), Proto-Slavic*sьrna, Old Church Slavonicсьрна(sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persianسر(sar), Sanskritशृङ्ग(śṛṅga, “horn”).
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
(Dublin English, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈhɒːɹn/
(Dublin English) IPA(key): /ˈhoːrn/, /ˈhoːɻn/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Noun
horn (countable and uncountable, pluralhorns)
(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
An antler.
(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
Synonym:keratin
A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
(architecture) The Ionic volute.
(nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
(countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
(countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
Synonyms:hooter, klaxon
(chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
Synonym:funnel
(informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
(slang, countable) A telephone.
Synonyms:blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
(vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
Synonyms:boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
(countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
Synonym:peninsula
(countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
(military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
Usage notes
When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either hunting horn or French horn, depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as English horn or basset horn.
Translations
Verb
horn (third-person singular simple presenthorns, present participlehorning, simple past and past participlehorned)
(transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
(transitive) To furnish with horns.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
Derived terms
Anagrams
NRHO, Rohn
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norsehorn, from Proto-Norseᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ(horna), from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-.
From Proto-West Germanic*horn, from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-(“horn, head, top”).
Cognate with Old Frisianhorn, Old Saxonhorn, Old High Germanhorn, Old Norsehorn, Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽(haurn).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /xorn/, [horˠn]
Noun
hornm
horn
antler
(horn-shaped) gable
Declension
Derived terms
hornbǣre
hornreċed
hyrne
Descendants
Middle English: horn, horne, orn
English: horn
Scots: horn
Yola: hoorn
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*horn, from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-.
Cognates include also Old Saxonhorn, Old Englishhorn, Old Norsehorn, Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽(haurn).
Noun
hornn
horn
Descendants
Middle High German: horn
Central Franconian:
Hunsrik: Horn
Luxembourgish: Har
Cimbrian: hòrn
German: Horn
Rhine Franconian:
Frankfurterisch: [hɔɐ̯n]
Yiddish: האָרן(horn)
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norseᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ(horna), from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱer- or Proto-Indo-European*ḱerh₂-. Cognates include Old Englishhorn (Englishhorn, Old Frisianhorn (West Frisianhoarn), Old Saxonhorn (Low GermanHoorn, horn), Dutchhoorn, Old High Germanhorn (GermanHorn), Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽(haurn).
Noun
hornn (genitivehorns, pluralhorn)
horn (of an animal)
horn (to drink from)
horn (musical instrument)
corner
angle
Declension
Descendants
Icelandic: horn
Faroese: horn
Norn: honnj
Norwegian Nynorsk: horn, (dialectal)hønn
Norwegian Bokmål: horn
Old Swedish: horn
Swedish: horn
Danish: horn
References
“horn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*horn, from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-.
Cognates include also Old Englishhorn, Old Frisianhorn, Old High Germanhorn, Old Norsehorn, Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽(haurn).
Noun
hornn
horn
Declension
Descendants
Low German: Hoorn, horn
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norsehorn, from Proto-Norseᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ(horna), from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-.
Noun
hornn
horn (of an animal)
horn (to drink from)
horn (musical instrument)
corner
angle
Declension
Descendants
Swedish: horn
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ukrainianгорн(horn), from Proto-Slavic*gъrnъ.
Noun
hornn (pluralhornuri)
chimney
Synonyms:cămin, coș, fumar, hogeag
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norsehorn, from Proto-Norseᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ(horna), from Proto-Germanic*hurną, from Proto-Indo-European*ḱerh₂-.
Pronunciation
Noun
hornn
horn (growth on animals' heads)
horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)