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Plural of drum

regular plural

The plural of drum is drums.

Forms of drum

Singulardrum /ˈdɹʌm/
Pluraldrums /dɹʌmz/
Countablecountable

Drums in a sentence

  • He's playing the piano and she's playing the drums!
  • The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in The New York Times
  • I was playing the acoustic guitar and my girlfriend was playing the drums.From the entry girlfriend
  • I was playing the drums and my boyfriend was playing the electric guitar.From the entry boyfriend
  • He keeps his feed in steel drums to prevent the mice from chewing holes in the feed-sacks.From the entry chew

Meaning of drum

  1. noun A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
  2. noun Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
  3. noun A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

Full definition of drum

Questions about the plural of drum

What is the plural of drum?
The plural of drum is drums.
Is drum countable?
Drum is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drum (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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