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# drumbeat

noun (a drumbeat, drumbeats)

«drumbeat» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The sound of a drum being hit, or a steady rhythm of such sounds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#m1)
2. A steady, repeated message or warning that keeps coming, like «a drumbeat of bad news». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#m2)

### In the lessons

In music lessons the drumbeat keeps the rhythm and the beat; in history, drumbeats led soldiers marching; in stories it builds tension; in news it means something repeated again and again; phrases: «a steady drumbeat», «the drumbeat of war».

### Examples

- The band marched to a steady drumbeat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x1)
- I could feel the drumbeat in my chest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x2)
- We clapped along to the drumbeat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x3)
- The soldiers moved in time with the drumbeat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x4)
- Far away in the jungle, a drumbeat began. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x5)
- There was a constant drumbeat of complaints about the noise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x6)
- Then the drumbeats subsided and faintly marked the rhythm of the singing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/#x7)

### Note

One word: drumbeat. Countable. In music, count the drumbeats: «1, 2, 3, 4» in 4/4 time.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «drumbeat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drumbeat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«drumbeat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drumbeat.html) on Mova free.