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Revision as of 15:34, 11 October 2011
Horn may refer to:
- Horn (anatomy), a pointed projection of the skin on the head of various animals. Source of all other uses below.
Places
- Cape Horn, the southernmost point of the continent of South America named (indirectly) after the Dutch town of Hoorn
- Cabo de Hornos, Chile, a Chilean commune located near Cape Horn
- Golden Horn, a historic inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul
- Horn (district), a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria
- Horn of Africa, a peninsula in East Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea, includes parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti
- Horn, Austria, a small town in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria, Austria and the capital of the Horn District
- Horn, Germany, a municipality in the district of Rhein-Hunsrück 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 a separate municipality until 1991
- Horn, Oppland, a ferry docking point on the east side of lake Randsfjorden, Norway
- Horn, Rutland, a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England
- Horn, Sweden, a locality situated in Kinda Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden
- Horn, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland, an exclave of Thurgau
- Hoorn, a municipality in the province of North Holland, in The Netherlands
Audio
People
Fiction
- Freyja, also known as Hörn, a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death
- Gjallarhorn, the sounding horn or ringing horn of the god Heimdall, used to announce Ragnarok
- Horn of Gondor, a horn carried by Boromir, son of the Steward of Gondor, in the Lord Of The Rings books and films
- Horn of Valere a fictional horn in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, that calls heroes back from the grave
- Horns (novel), a Luciferian dark fantasy novel written in 2010 by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King
Slang
- Corna, also called the "devil horns", a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries, also used in heavy metal music
- Telephone, also known as "the horn", especially among soldiers and police officers
- Texas Longhorns, sometimes shortened to "Horns", the sports teams of the University of Texas in Austin
- Hook 'em Horns, a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams
- Cuckolds are sometimes described as having grown "horns".
Other
- Drinking horn, an animal horn that has been used as a drinking vessel in various cultures since ancient times
- Gabriel's Horn, a geometric figure that has infinite surface area but encloses a finite volume
- Golden Horns of Gallehus, two horns made of sheet gold discovered in Gallehus, Denmark and dating to the early 5th century
- Horn (album), an album by Pharaoh Overlord
- 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
- The Horn of Plenty, also known as Cornucopia and the Horn of Amalthea, a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC
- Italian horn, an Italian amulet of good luck used to protect the wearer from the evil-eye curse
- The pommel of a saddle.