Trump

The surname has two sources.^[1]

• English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”).
• German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections)
• The place in Baltimore county was named after settler Simeon Van Trump.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp
• Homophone: trump

Trump (countable and uncountable, plural Trumps)

1. A surname from German.
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter XXXII, in Orley Farm‎^[1]:

     The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.

   1. Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality, and current president of the United States of America (2017–2021, 2025–present).

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Donald Trump

      • 2017 December 3, Kayleigh Roberts, “Yara Shahidi Just Asked Hillary Clinton About That Very Uncomfortable Trump Debate”, in Harper's BAZAAR‎^[2]:

        During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.

2. A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

• ⇒ Translingual: donaldtrumpi

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Trump is the 8,484^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3,886 individuals. Trump is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.

• Category:en:Donald Trump

• “Trump”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Trump”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Trump”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• Trumpf, Drumpf

Possibly from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”); see trommeln (“to drum”) and Trommel (“drum”).

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Trump m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Trumps or (with an article) Trump, feminine genitive Trump, plural Trumps)

1. a surname

• → English: Trump