Meanings
plural crumhorns
- entertainmentAny of several related simple woodwind instruments having a bent horn
[Yann] LeCun grew up constructing model aeroplanes and playing woodwind instruments such as the recorder and the crumhorn, a “weird Renaissance instrument”, which he played in a Renaissance dance music band.
2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- GermanKrum(m)horn
- Englishcrumhorn
Borrowed from German Krum(m)horn (literally “bent horn”).
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan cromorn
- cromornwoodwind instrument
Dutch kromhoorn
- kromhoornwoodwind instrument
French tournebout
- tourneboutwoodwind instrument
German Krummhorn
- Krummhornwoodwind instrument
Hungarian görbekürt
- görbekürtwoodwind instrument
Italian cromorno
- cromornowoodwind instrument
Cite this entry
crumhorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crumhorn
“crumhorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crumhorn. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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