strum
/strʌm/
strum verb: to play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
Verb
strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)
- To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
- Synonyms:
- thrum
Noun
strum (plural strums)
- The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
- hear the strum of a guitar
- The act of strumming.
- give the banjo a little strum
Proper noun capitalized: Strum
Strum (plural Strums)
- A surname.
strum meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Indonesian
strum in Tamil
- நாணுளர்வு
strum in Bengali
- টুংটাং করে বাজানো
strum in Kannada
- ಅಡ್ಡಾದಿಡ್ಡಿಯಾಗಿ ನುಡಿಸು, ಅಡ್ಡಾದಿಡ್ಡಿಯಾಗಿ ಮೀಟು
strum in Indonesian
- play a stringed instrument
- genjreng
More languagesFewer languages
- strum in Vietnamese
- gảy, khảy
Examples of strum in a sentence
- Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.
- Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts.
- What was remarkable about his music wasn’t the folk-rock acoustic strum or the stoic, lonesome vocals.
Synonyms of strum
Forms of strum
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | strums |
| present participle | strumming |
| past participle | strummed |
| past | strummed |
| Noun | |
| plural | strums |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Strums |
Origin of strum
Variant of thrum.
Words formed from strum
Phrases with strum
Words that rhyme with strum
Questions about strum
- What does strum mean?
- Strum means to play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
- What is strum in Tamil?
- Strum in Tamil is நாணுளர்வு. See Strum meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is strum?
- Strum can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce strum?
- Strum is pronounced /strʌm/.
- What is the past tense of strum?
- The past tense of strum is strummed.
Words near strum in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: strum (page history and authors); Strum (page history and authors); strum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); strum (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); strum (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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