TAMBOURINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tambourine mean? 

• TAMBOURINE (noun)
  The noun TAMBOURINE has 1 sense:

1. a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

  Familiarity information: TAMBOURINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMBOURINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tambourine" is a kind of...):

drum; membranophone; tympan (a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end)