drill master

1. 1.

   a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline

   Synonymsdrill instructor

   Broadernoncommissioned officer

   military

Questions about drill master

What does drill master mean?

drill master means "a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline".

What is another word for drill master?

Close synonyms include drill instructor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drill master a common word?

drill master is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.