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"DRUMMERS" is a plural of: drummer. |
Date "DRUMMERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Drummers So commercial travellers are called in America, because their vocation is to drum up recruits or customers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DRUMMERS |
| Specialty definitions using "DRUMMERS": CROPPING DRUMS ♦ Parias. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Indian drummers at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA. |  | Crew "At Quarters", circa 1887-88. Note black sailor in right center; gun crews by their weapons at right, Marines with "Trap-door Springfield" rifles, drummers, dog on deck and hammocks stowed in hammock rails over the bulwarks. Credit: NAVY. |
 | NAACP Juniors, drummers and majorettes in uniform, posed on and in front of steps of church, Santa Clara County, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | One of the drummers for Eskimo dance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DRUMMERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DRUMMERS" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 63 | 42,364 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DRUMMERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Trommlern. (various references) | ||||
Italian | tamburino. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ummersdray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"DRUMMERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daumiers, drimers, Drimmer, drumer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DRUMMERS" (pronounced dru"merz) |
| 4 | -u" m er z | comers, plumbers, summers. |
| 3 | -m er z | astronomers, bloomers, bombers, boomers, charmers, climbers, consumers, costumers, cucumbers, customers, dimmers, disclaimers, dreamers, elastomers, farmers, framers, Gamers, glimmers, groomers, hammers, homers, informers, isomers, jackhammers, jammers, latecomers, lemurs, monomers, murmurs, newcomers, performers, polymers, primers, programmers, reamers, reformers, rumors, rumours, screamers, shimmers, simmers, skimmers, steamers, streamers, swimmers, termers, timers, transformers, tremors, trimmers, tumors. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-m-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: drummer, murders, rummers. | |
-2 letters: demurs, murder, murres, rummer, summed, summer. | |
-3 letters: demur, derms, drums, druse, dures, durrs, mured, mures, murre, murrs, mused, muser, ruder, ruers, sedum, serum, surer. | |
-4 letters: derm, drum, dues, dure, durr, emus, errs, mems, muds, mums, mure, murr, muse, reds, rems, rude, rued, ruer, rues, rums, ruse, sued, suer, surd, sure. | |
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