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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
rumba is a noun and verb meaning "syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba". It carries 4 recorded senses.
syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba
a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rumba come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.