drumbeat
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the sound made by beating a drum
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Sense 2 noun
(military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- military domain topic
Sense 3 noun
a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause
the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq
Types & categories
- advocacy hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | military |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | signal |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tattoo |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | advocacy |