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Webster 1913 Edition


Tambourine

Tamˊbour-ine′

,
Noun.
[F.
tambourin
; cf. It.
tamburino
. See
Tambour
, and cf.
Tamborine
.]
A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

Definition 2024


tambourine

tambourine

See also: tambouriné

English

Noun

tambourine (plural tambourines)

  1. A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
  2. A tambourine dove.
    • 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
      Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.

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Verb

tambourine

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tambouriner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of tambouriner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tambouriner
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tambouriner
  5. second-person singular imperative of tambouriner