drum

1. 1.

   make a rhythmic sound

   “Rain drummed against the windshield”

   “The drums beat all night”

   Synonymsbeatthrum

   Broadersound
2. 2.

   play a percussion instrument

   Broaderplay

   music

3. 3.

   study intensively, as before an exam

   “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”

   Synonymscramgrind awaybone upswotget upmug upswot upbone

   Broaderstudy

Other forms of drum

plural

drums·

past tense or participle

drummed

present participle

drumming

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drum

What does drum mean?

drum means "a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drum?

drum has 1 syllable: drum. In IPA it is /ˈdɹʌm/.

What is another word for drum?

Close synonyms include membranophone, tympan, barrel, metal drum, brake drum. 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 drum a common word?

drum is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with drum?

1 word rhymes with drum. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.