"kettledrum" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-kettledrum.wav [US] Forms: kettledrums [plural]
Etymology: kettle + drum Etymology templates: {{compound|en|kettle|drum}} kettle + drum Head templates: {{en-noun}} kettledrum (plural kettledrums)
  1. (music) A large percussion instrument with a drumhead that is stretched over a hemispherical metal bowl. Categories (topical): Musical instruments, Percussion instruments Synonyms: timpanum Translations (percussion instrument): գոս (gos) (Armenian), тимпан (timpan) [masculine] (Bulgarian), timbala [feminine] (Catalan), 定音鼓 (dìngyīngǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), tympán [masculine] (Czech), pauke [common-gender] (Danish), pauk [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), timbalo (Esperanto), patarumpu (Finnish), timbale [feminine] (French), დაფდაფი (dapdapi) (Georgian), ლიტავრა (liṭavra) (Georgian), Kesselpauke [feminine] (German), Pauke [feminine] (German), üstdob (Hungarian), páka (usually in plural form: pákur) [feminine] (Icelandic), timbalo (Ido), citealdruma [masculine] (Irish), tiompán [masculine] (Irish), timpano (Italian), ಪರ್ರಹ (parraha) (Kannada), գոս (gos) (Middle Armenian), pauke [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pauke [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), كوس (küs) (Ottoman Turkish), کوس (kôs) (Persian), kocioł [masculine] (Polish), tímpano [masculine] (Portuguese), timbale [masculine] (Portuguese), лита́вра (litávra) [feminine] (Russian), tímpano [masculine] (Spanish), tímpanos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), atabal (Tagalog), ఢంకా (ḍhaṅkā) (Telugu), timpun (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-kettledrum-en-noun-ZF5lbSVm Disambiguation of Percussion instruments: 91 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Middle Armenian terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of Middle Armenian terms with redundant script codes: 84 16 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'percussion instrument': 94 6
  2. (dated) An informal social party at which a light snack is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-kettledrum-en-noun-spUc7N7W
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kettle drum, kettle-drum Derived forms: kettledrummer

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      "word": "kocioł"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tímpano"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timbale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "litávra",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лита́вра"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tímpano"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "tímpanos"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "atabal"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ḍhaṅkā",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "ఢంకా"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "timpun"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "kettledrum"
  ],
  "word": "kettledrum"
}
{
  "called_from": "translations/611",
  "msg": "suspicious translation with ': ': {'lang': 'Icelandic', 'code': 'is', 'sense': 'percussion instrument', 'tags': ['feminine'], 'word': 'páka (usually in plural form: pákur)'}",
  "path": [
    "kettledrum"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "kettledrum",
  "trace": ""
}

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