Horn may refer to:

• Horn (anatomy), a hollow, stiff, pointed projection of the skin of various animals

Horn can also refer to things that are made from, and/or are shaped like, the anatomical object:

• Horn (instrument), sometimes called a "French horn," a brass musical instrument constructed of coiled tubing
  • The brass and woodwind musicians in a jazz or R&B band are sometimes referred to collectively as the horn section; "horn" can be a slang reference to any of those instruments
• Drinking horn, an ancient drinking vessel
• Anointing horn, used for the unction at a coronation
• Horn (telecommunications), an open-ended radio waveguide of increasing cross-sectional area
• Horn (acoustic), an open-ended tapered sound-guide to match a sound-producing device to the characteristic impedance of free space
  • A common example is a car horn; see also Klaxon
  • A horn speaker incorporates this principle into a loudspeaker
• Horn (telescope), a stationary radio telescope
• Horn (Chinese constellation), a constellation in Chinese astronomy
• Glacial horn, a sharp mountain peak created by glacial erosion
• Horn (diacritic), a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as o or u is to be pronounced unrounded

Related slang usages include:

• "Horn" is military jargon for a telephone
• "Horns" is a shortened version of "Longhorns", the name of the sports teams of the University of Texas
  • Hook 'em Horns is a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams
• Devil horns is a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries. It is also used in heavy metal.

Horn can refer to one of the following places:

• Horn, Austria
• Horn (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Haelen
  • Horne (county), a small historic countship of the Holy Roman Empire associated with the village, which was merged into the prince-bishopric of Lüttich
• Horn, Rutland, a small civil parish in England
• Horn, Sweden
• Horn, Switzerland
• Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America

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