Horn

Horn most often refers to:

• Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound
  • Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments
• Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals, either the "true" horn, or other horn-like growths
  • Horn, a colloquial reference to keratin, the substance that is the main component of the tissue that sheaths the bony core of horns and hoofs of various animals

Horn may also refer to:

Audio

• Horn loudspeaker
• Vehicle horn
  • Train horn

Personal name

• Horn (surname)
• Freyja, also known as Hörn, a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death

Places

• Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America
• Horn of Africa, a peninsula in northeast Africa
• Horn (district), a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria
  • Horn, Austria, a small town, capital of the Horn District
• Horn, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Horn, Hamburg, a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany
• Horn (Netherlands), a town in the Dutch province of Limburg, and a separate municipality until 1991
• Horn, Oppland, a ferry docking point on the east side of Randsfjorden, a lake in Norway
• Horn, Rutland, a civil parish in the East Midlands of England
• Horn, Sweden, a locality
• Horn, Switzerland, a municipality in the district in the canton of Thurgau
• Horn, Nebraska, a community in the United States
• Horn Island, Queensland, one of the Torres Strait Islands
• Horn River, Northwest Territories, Canada
• Horn (Schwarzbach), a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany
• The Horn (Mount Buffalo), a peak in Victoria, Australia
• The Horn (New Hampshire), a peak in the northeastern United States

Music

• Horn (album), an album by Pharaoh Overlord
• Horn (Apink album), 2022
• "The Horn", a song from the album Love Kraft by Super Furry Animals
• "The Horn", from the album Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam, a comedy track by Derek and Clive

Slang

• Telephone, also known as "the horn"
• Two-way radio, also known as "the horn"

Other uses

• Horn (Chinese constellation), part of the European constellation Virgo
• Horn (diacritic), a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as o or u is to be pronounced unrounded
• Horn Cable Television, a television channel in Somalia
• The knob-like appendage attached to the pommel of a saddle
• Horn antenna, a type of antenna shaped like a horn and also called "horn"
• Glacial horn, a pyramid-shaped peak sculpted by glacial erosion
• Control horn, a device that helps control the control surfaces of an aircraft
• Horn (video game), a mobile game

See also

• All pages with titles containing horn
• Horned God
• Horns (disambiguation)
• Horne (disambiguation)
• Hoorn (disambiguation)