Antonyms for
horn
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
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All Definitions for Horn

Below are all the dictionary definitions of horn:

1A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
2Any 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.
3An antler.
4The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
5A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
6An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
7One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
8The high pommel of a saddle
9Also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
10The Ionic volute.
11The outer end of a crosstree
12Also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
13A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
14One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
15Any of several musical wind instruments.
16An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
17A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
18A sound signaling the expiration of time.
19A conical device used to direct waves.
20Generally, any brass wind instrument.
21A telephone.
22An erection of the penis.
23A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
24A 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.
25An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
26In 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.
27To assault with the horns.
28To furnish with horns.
29To sound the horn of a motor vehicle
30To honk.
31To cuckold.
32A surname.
33Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
34The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
35A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
36An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.

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