drumbeater

Questions about drumbeater

What does drumbeater mean?

drumbeater means "a fervent and even militant proponent of something".

How many syllables are in drumbeater?

drumbeater has 4 syllables and divides as drum-be-a-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for drumbeater?

Close synonyms include partisan, zealot. 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 drumbeater a common word?

drumbeater 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.