thrum

1. 1.

   a thrumming sound

   “he could hear the thrum of a banjo”

   Broadersound

Other forms of thrum

plural

thrums·

past tense or participle

thrummed

present participle

thrumming

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 thrum

What does thrum mean?

thrum means "sound with a monotonous hum". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thrum?

thrum has 1 syllable: thrum.

What is another word for thrum?

Close synonyms include hum, strum, drum, beat. 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 thrum a common word?

thrum 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.