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drum has 16 distinct synonyms spread across 7 of its 9 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
the sound of a drum
“he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes”
a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for drum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.