ear trumpet

English

Man with an ear trumpet

Alternative forms

• ear-trumpet, eartrumpet

Noun

ear trumpet (plural ear trumpets)

1. A conical device designed to channel sound to the apex, placed in the ear to serve as a hearing aid.
   • 2012, Joseph DiMona, This Was Burlesque:

     The second student is a hard-of-hearing, eighty-year-old man with a long, white beard and a huge ear trumpet.

Synonyms

• earhorn
• otacousticon

Translations

conical hearing aid

• Bulgarian: слухов апарат m (sluhov aparat)
• Finnish: kuulotorvi