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drumbeat

noun

Etymology

From drum + beat.

  1. derived from *bautaną✻ — “to push, strike”
  2. derived from *bautan✻
  3. derived from bēatan — “to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”
  4. inherited from beten
  5. compounded as drumbeat — “drum + beat”

Definitions

  1. The beating of a drum.

  2. The sound of a beating drum.

    • This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.

  3. A repetitive beating sound.

    • This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance!
    • The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
    • Rycant stood close enough to catch his words despite the drumbeat of rain on the thick leaves above their heads, but only Rectoria picked up the note of relief.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A driving force.

      • Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
      • We can hear the drumbeat of history, right in our own time.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA