rumba

1. 1.

   dance the rhumba

   Synonymsrhumba

   Broaderdance

Other forms of rumba

plural

rumbas·

past tense

rumbaed·

present participle

rumbaing·

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 rumba

What does rumba mean?

rumba means "syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rumba?

rumba has 2 syllables and divides as rum-ba 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 rumba?

Close synonyms include rhumba, rhumba, rhumba, rhumba. 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 rumba a common word?

rumba is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.