Usually means: Brass instrument, similar to trumpet.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word cornet:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cornet, cornet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cornet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cornet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cornet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cornet, cornet: Wordnik
  7. cornet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cornet: Wiktionary
  9. cornet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cornet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cornet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cornet, cornet: Dictionary.com
  13. cornet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cornet (disambiguation), Cornet (military rank), Cornet (organ stop), Cornet (rank), Cornet (sculpture), Cornet, The Cornet (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cornet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cornet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cornet: Rhymezone
  18. Cornet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cornet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Cornet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. cornet: Free Dictionary
  22. cornet: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. cornet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cornet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cornet: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  6. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Cornet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CORNET: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cornet: Easton Bible
  2. Cornet: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cornet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cornetist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
noun:  A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
noun:  A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
noun:  (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
noun:  A kind of organ stop.
noun:  The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
noun:  (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
noun:  (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

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