hornblower
noun
hornblower is a noun meaning “Someone or something that blows a horn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-N-B-L-O-W-E-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hornblower is hornblowers.
What does hornblower mean?
noun
- 1
Someone or something that blows a horn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hornblower?
Hornblower has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hornblower
- hornblowers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hornblower?
Hornblower appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hornblower come from?
From horn + blower, or from Old English hornblāwere.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).