Associations to the word «Drumbeat»

Wiktionary

DRUMBEAT, noun. The beating of a drum.
DRUMBEAT, noun. The sound of a beating drum.
DRUMBEAT, noun. (figuratively) Forceful support of a cause.

Dictionary definition

DRUMBEAT, noun. The sound made by beating a drum.
DRUMBEAT, noun. (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown.
DRUMBEAT, noun. A vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; "the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats