💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bongo drum"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| bongonoun | Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. |
| bongoingnoun | The playing of the bongo. |
| bongoistnoun | A musician who plays the bongoes. |
| conganoun | (dance) A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain. |
| boulanoun | (music) Any of various Caribbean drums. |
| big drumnoun | (music, dance, Caribbean) A genre of music and dance, and an associated festival tradition, found in many islands of the Lesser Antilles. |
| djembénoun | Alternative spelling of djembe. [(music) A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.] |
| bombonoun | Short for bombo criollo [Any of a family of Latin American drums derived from the European bass drum and native Latin American drumming traditions.] |
| bembanoun | The language of these people. |
| ngoma drumnoun | Any of a set of drums used in Bantu music, traditionally made of wood covered with cow skin. |
| batanoun | A ceremonial double-headed drum played in triplet in the religion of santería, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico, originally from the Yoruba of Nigeria. |
| tumbaonoun | (music) The basic rhythm played on the conga drum and the bass in Afro-Cuban music. |
| jembenoun | (Kenya) A kind of hoe (digging tool). |
| bamboulanoun | A dance accompanied by such drums. |
| timbalesnoun | (music) A pair of tunable single-headed, metal-shelled cylindrical drums, used in Latin American music |
| tbilatnoun | A type of drum from Morocco that resembles bongos. |
| bembenoun | Alternative spelling of bemba. [(music, Trinidad and Tobago) A type of folk drum used in Trinidad and Tobago.] |
| barrel drumnoun | (music) A drum (membranophone) with a shape that bulges in the middle, forming a barrel-like appearance, usually very large and made of wood with a one-headed and open-bottomed body. |
| candombenoun | (music) A musical style of Uruguay originating from African slaves. |
| tablanoun | (music) A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos. |
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