drummer
/ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)/US/ˈdɹʌmɚ/
drummer noun: one who plays the drums.
Noun (1)
drummer (plural drummers)
- One who plays the drums.
- Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.
- The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery.Credit...2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022
- Synonyms:
- drummist, drumslade, percussionist, stickman
- A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
- Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
- Bullock's liver will catch drummer.1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67
Noun (2)
drummer (plural drummers)
- A housebreaker.
- Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]1999, Theatre Record, volume 19, numbers 17-20
- A travelling salesman.
- You know what life on the road is like — these poor salesmen when they don't sell some big account they been counting on why they go into one terrible slump they set there in the hotel room brooding over it and after a while they go out and meet some other drummer down in the lobby and start...1953, Richard Bissell, chapter 14, in 7½ Cents, Atlantic-Little, Brown, page 154
Proper noun capitalized: Drummer
Drummer (plural Drummers)
- A surname.
drummer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
drummer in Hindi
- ड्रमर, ढोलवादक, ड्रमवादक
drummer in Tamil
- one who plays the drums
- பறையன் paṟaiyaṉ
drummer in Marathi
- ड्रमर, ढोलवादक, ड्रमवादक
drummer in Urdu
- ڈھولچی, طبل نواز
More languagesFewer languages
- drummer in Bengali
- ড্রামার, ড্রামবাদক
- drummer in Telugu
- డ్రమ్మర్
- drummer in Malayalam
- ഡ്രമ്മർ, ഡ്രമർ
- drummer in Kannada
- ಡ್ರಮ್ಮರ್, ಡ್ರಮ್ ವಾದಕ
- drummer in Punjabi
- ਡਰੰਮਰ, ਡਰੱਮਰ, ਡ੍ਰਮਰ
- drummer in Gujarati
- ડ્રમર, ડ્રમવાદક
- drummer in Odia
- ଡ୍ରମର, ଡ୍ରମ୍ମର୍, ଡ୍ରମ୍ମର
- drummer in Nepali
- ड्रमर, ड्रमवादक, ढोलवादक
- drummer in Tagalog
- tambolero
- drummer in Indonesian
- drumer
Examples of drummer in a sentence
- The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
- The drummer Cynthia praised her best friends' dance moves to the music.
- After the introduction, the drummer is to play time.
Synonyms of drummer
Forms of drummer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | drummers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Drummers |
Origin of drummer
From drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
From drum (“house”) + -er.
Words formed from drummer
- bass drummer
- bucket drummer
- different drummer
- double drummer
- drummerless
- frame drummer
- golden drummer
- kettledrummer
- march to a different drummer
- march to one's own drummer
- march to the beat of a different drummer
- march to the beat of one's own drummer
- orange drummer
- snare drummer
- steel drummer
- talking-drummer
- talking drummer
- tenor drummer
- tom-tom drummer
Words that rhyme with drummer
Questions about drummer
- What does drummer mean?
- Drummer means one who plays the drums.
- What is drummer in Hindi?
- Drummer in Hindi is ड्रमर, ढोलवादक, ड्रमवादक. See Drummer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is drummer?
- Drummer can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce drummer?
- Drummer is pronounced /ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of drummer?
- The plural of drummer is drummers.
Words near drummer in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: drummer (page history and authors); Drummer (page history and authors); drummer (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drummer (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drummer (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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