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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).

Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).

Noun

drum (plural drums)

2. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.

   Hypernym: percussion instrument

3. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

5. A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

7. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
8. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
9. A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
10. (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, page 258:

      ‘he is the darndest little speaker we got, so better sit there and listen to him while he gives you the drum and if you clean out your earholes you might get a bit of sense into your heads.’

Usage notes

When used in the plural, "drums" or "the drums" often specifically means a drum kit as used for contemporary styles such as rock or jazz; a classical percussionist would be very unlikely to say that they "play the drums" on a piece, even if the only parts they play are, indeed, drums (as opposed to marimba or xylophone or similar.)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• percussion

Verb

drum (third-person singular simple present drums, present participle drumming, simple past and past participle drummed)

1. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.

   • drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair

3. (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.

4. To throb, as the heart.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

5. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
6. Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• drum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Irish druim, Scottish Gaelic druim (“back, ridge”).

Noun

drum (plural drums)

1. (now rare) A small hill or ridge of hills.

Usage notes

• Mainly encountered in place names, such as Drumglass and Drumsheugh.

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Noun

drum (plural drums)

1. (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. [from 18th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 631:

     Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.

   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 105:

     [H]e was engaged in a partie of cards, at a drum in the house of a certain lady of quality […] .

2. (slang, chiefly Britain) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• drummer (housebreaker; travelling salesman)

References

• drum at OneLook Dictionary Search

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• drumu

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”). Compare Romanian drum.

Noun

drum n (plural drumuri)

1. road

Synonyms

• cali, sucachi

See also

• cãrari

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English drum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr?m/
• Hyphenation: drum
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

drum m (plural drums, diminutive drummetje n)

1. (music) drum, usually one belonging to a drum kit

Synonyms

• trommel

Derived terms

• drumstel

German

Pronunciation

Adverb

drum

1. Contraction of darum.

Further reading

• “drum” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”).

Noun

drum n (plural drumuri)

1. road

Declension

Related terms

See also

• strad?
• cale
• c?rare
• ?osea

References

Language in Danger Andrew Dalby, 2003

References

• drum in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ?????? (drómos, “road, track”).

Noun

dr?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. road

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin d?rum, nominative neuter singular of d?rus (“hard”). Doublet of dour and dure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dju???m/, /?d?.??m/
• Homophone: Durham

Noun

durum (usually uncountable, plural durums)

1. (often used attributively) Ellipsis of durum wheat
   • 1933 October, Glenn S. Smith, J. Allen Clark, Inheritance of Stem-Rust reaction and Correlation of Characters in Pentad, Nodak, and Akrona Durum-Wheat Crosses, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin 385, page 2,

     Much has been done in crossing Triticum durum Desf. and T. vulgare Vill.² in an attempt to produce common wheats that are as resistant to stem rust as are the durums.

   • 2003 October, Commission staff, Durum and Hard Red Spring Wheat From Canada, U.S. International Trade Commission, Publication 3639, page V-5,

     The Minneapolis Grain Exchange stated that durum is a small volume commodity with very specific uses. The durum futures contract traded sporadically for several years, and the Exchange declared the durum futures market dormant after there were no trades and no open interest in any futures contracts.

   • 2012, Ruby Parker Puckett, Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), 4th Edition, page 397,

     Water is added to a mixture of durum meal or flour, semolina, and farina to make dough that is forced through dies to make tubular macaroni products and cord-like spaghetti.

Translations

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From dur (“to stand”) +? -um. The sense 'situation' may be a semantic borrowing from Turkish durum.

Noun

durum (definite accusative durumu, plural)

1. firmness, steadfastness

   Synonyms: davam, dözüm, tab, s?bat

2. tenacity, endurance

   Synonyms: davaml?l?q, möhk?mlik

3. nutritional value

   Synonyms: doyumluluq, qidal?l?q

4. abutment, pier
5. standing

   Synonym: dayanacaq

6. hard and fine sand or soil
7. situation

   Synonym: v?ziyy?t

8. condition, status, state

   Synonym: hal

Declension

References

Latin

Adjective

d?rum

1. nominative neuter singular of d?rus

Old Norse

Noun

durum f pl

1. dative indefinite of dyrr

Turkish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

durum (definite accusative durumu, plural durumlar)

1. situation; status, condition

Declension

Synonyms

• (situation): hâl, konum, vaziyet

Derived terms