| Trumpeter (n.) One who sounds a trumpet. |
| Trumpeter (n.) One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. |
| Trumpeter (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. 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. |
| Trumpeter (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon. |
| Trumpeter (n.) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note. |
| Trumpeter (n.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. |
| trumpeter trumpeter swan / Cygnus buccinator large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry |
| trumpeter large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry, easily domesticated |
| Brazilian trumpeter / Psophia crepitans trumpeter of Brazil and Guiana, often kept to protect poultry in Brazil |
| herald / trumpeter (formal) a person who announces important news, "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet" |
| trumpeter / cornetist a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet |