| Cornet: English to English |
| Cornet (n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston. |
| Cornet (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares. |
| Cornet (n.) A certain organ stop or register. |
| Cornet (n.) A headdress |
| Cornet (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century. |
| Cornet (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions. |
| Cornet (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. |
| Cornet (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family. |
| Cornet (n.) See Coronet, 2. |
| Cornet (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871. |
| Cornet (n.) The standard of such a troop. |