What does drumbeat mean?
Drumbeat means The beating of a drum..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The beating of a drum..
This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
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.
What does the drumbeat of your heart say?
Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
On a more scholarly level the drumbeat of need was signalled too: as when the newly appointed headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Richard Mulcaster, declared: 'it would be a thing verie praiseworthy ... if som one learned and as laborious a man wold gather all the wordes which we vse in our English tung ... into one dictionarie.'
We can hear the drumbeat of history, right in our own time.
Use drumbeat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drumbeat means The beating of a drum..
Common synonyms include rub-a-dub.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
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