Cymbal

Quick meaning: Cymbal is a noun meaning (music) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.

Meaning

(music) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.

Example Sentences

I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang […]

Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne, As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.

The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Word Forms

• cymbals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crashes, cimbal, symbal, cymbaling, cymbalum, cymbalon.

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