drumbeat

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Etymology

drum +‎ beat

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Noun

drumbeat (plural drumbeats)

  1. The beating of a drum.
  2. The sound of a beating drum.
    This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance!
    • 2015, Tom Liam Lynch, The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research, page 54:
      This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
  3. (by extension) A repetitive beating sound.
    • 2010, Dale Andrade, Surging South of Baghdad, page 108:
      The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
    • 2015, Alison Gardiner, The Serpent of Eridor, page 113:
      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.
    • 2020, Mark David Gerson, The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write:
      What does the drumbeat of your heart say?
  4. (figuratively) A driving force.
    • 1996, Paulette D. Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking, page 48:
      Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
    • 2004, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything:
      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.'
    • 2005, R. C. Leonard, Silence of the Drums, page 66:
      We can hear the drumbeat of history, right in our own time.
    • 2008, Steven M. Gillon, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation:
      While the partisan wrangling annoyed Clinton, it was the drumbeat of attacks on his character and the constant investigations of his administration that bothered him most of all.
    • 2012, J. Frederick Arment, The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works, page 151:
      It takes courage to be against the drumbeat of war and especially to become a “shield” against violence.

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