snare drum

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   a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

   Synonymssnareside drum

   Broaderdrum

   Partssnare

Questions about snare drum

What does snare drum mean?

snare drum means "a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head".

What is another word for snare drum?

Close synonyms include snare, side 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 snare drum a common word?

snare drum 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.