He marches to the beat of a different drummer.
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Drummer
//ˈdɹʌmɚ//
Synonyms for "drummer" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (7)
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5 entriesTranslations
107 translations across 46 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- tromspeler noun (one who plays the drums)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τυμπανιστής noun (one who plays the drums)
Arabic
1 entries- طبال noun (one who plays the drums)
Armenian
1 entries- թմբկահար noun (one who plays the drums)
Bashkir
1 entries- барабансы noun (one who plays the drums)
Bulgarian
3 entries- барабанист noun (one who plays the drums)
- барабанчик noun (one who plays the drums)
- пътуващ търговец noun (traveling salesman)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鼓手 noun (one who plays the drums)
Czech
2 entries- bubenice noun (one who plays the drums)
- bubeník noun (one who plays the drums)
Dutch
4 entries- drummer noun (one who plays the drums)
- drumspeelster noun (one who plays the drums)
- drumspeler noun (one who plays the drums)
- kramer noun (traveling salesman)
Esperanto
1 entries- tamburisto noun (one who plays the drums)
Estonian
1 entries- trummar noun (one who plays the drums)
Ewe
1 entries- ʋuƒola noun (one who plays the drums)
Finnish
3 entries- kauppamatkustaja noun (traveling salesman)
- rummunsoittaja noun (one who plays the drums)
- rumpali noun (one who plays the drums)
French
4 entries- batteur noun (one who plays the drums)
- batteuse noun (one who plays the drums)
- drummer noun (one who plays the drums)
- drummeur noun (one who plays the drums)
Galician
4 entries- batería noun (one who plays the drums)
- tamboreteira noun (one who plays the drums)
- tamboreteiro noun (one who plays the drums)
- tamborileira noun (one who plays the drums)
German
4 entries- Drummer noun (one who plays the drums)
- Drummerin noun (one who plays the drums)
- Schlagzeuger noun (one who plays the drums)
- Schlagzeugerin noun (one who plays the drums)
Greek
4 entries- ντράμερ noun (one who plays the drums)
- ντραμίστας noun (one who plays the drums)
- τυμπανίστρια noun (one who plays the drums)
- τυμπανιστής noun (one who plays the drums)
Hausa
1 entries- makaɗi noun (one who plays the drums)
Hungarian
1 entries- dobos noun (one who plays the drums)
Icelandic
2 entries- trommari noun (one who plays the drums)
- trommuleikari noun (one who plays the drums)
Irish
2 entries- drumadóir noun (one who plays the drums)
- taistealaí tráchtála noun (traveling salesman)
Italian
1 entries- batterista noun (one who plays the drums)
Japanese
2 entries- ドラマー noun (one who plays the drums)
- 鼓手 noun (one who plays the drums)
Karok
1 entries- imthanuvnúvaan noun (one who plays the drums)
Kazakh
2 entries- дабылшы noun (one who plays the drums)
- дағырашы noun (one who plays the drums)
Korean
1 entries- 드러머 noun (one who plays the drums)
Ktunaxa
1 entries- kt̓amuxu noun (one who plays the drums)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- добулбасчы noun (one who plays the drums)
Macedonian
2 entries- тапанар noun (one who plays the drums)
- тапанарка noun (one who plays the drums)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- batterist noun (one who plays the drums)
- trommeslager noun (one who plays the drums)
- trommis noun (one who plays the drums)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- batterist noun (one who plays the drums)
- trommeslagar noun (one who plays the drums)
- trommis noun (one who plays the drums)
Polish
4 entries- bębniarz noun (one who plays the drums)
- bębnista noun (one who plays the drums)
- dobosz noun (one who plays the drums)
- doboszka noun (one who plays the drums)
Portuguese
3 entries- baterista noun (one who plays the drums)
- vendedor ambulante noun (traveling salesman)
- vendedora ambulante noun (traveling salesman)
Romanian
4 entries- baterist noun (one who plays the drums)
- bateristă noun (one who plays the drums)
- drummer noun (one who plays the drums)
- toboșar noun (one who plays the drums)
Russian
3 entries- бараба́нщик noun (one who plays the drums)
- бараба́нщица noun (one who plays the drums)
- коробе́йник noun (traveling salesman)
Slovak
2 entries- bubeník noun (one who plays the drums)
- bubeníčka noun (one who plays the drums)
Spanish
4 entries- baterista noun (one who plays the drums)
- batería noun (one who plays the drums)
- vendedor ambulante noun (traveling salesman)
- vendedor itinerante noun (traveling salesman)
Swahili
1 entries- mpiga ngoma noun (one who plays the drums)
Swedish
3 entries- batterist noun (one who plays the drums)
- trummis noun (one who plays the drums)
- trumslagare noun (one who plays the drums)
Tagalog
1 entries- tambolero noun (one who plays the drums)
Tamil
1 entries- பறையன் noun (one who plays the drums)
Turkish
2 entries- baterist noun (one who plays the drums)
- davulcu noun (one who plays the drums)
Turkmen
2 entries- deprekçi noun (one who plays the drums)
- depçi noun (one who plays the drums)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бараба́нщик noun (one who plays the drums)
- бараба́нщиця noun (one who plays the drums)
Volapük
3 entries- hitruman noun (one who plays the drums)
- jitruman noun (one who plays the drums)
- truman noun (one who plays the drums)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּײַקלער noun (one who plays the drums)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Who's your favorite drummer?
Source: tatoeba (908698)
The drummer grabbed the drumsticks and made the music start.
Source: tatoeba (1196358)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Source: tatoeba (2040095)
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