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SPEAKING TRUMPET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A trumpet-shaped acoustic device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("speaking trumpet" is a kind of...):
acoustic device (a device for amplifying or transmitting sound)