Tambourmajor
German, noun/ˈtambuːɐ̯maˌjoːɐ̯/
Tambourmajor is spelled T-A-M-B-O-U-R-M-A-J-O-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tambourmajor is a German masculine noun meaning “drum major” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Leiter und Ausbilder eines Spielmannszuges”.
What does Tambourmajor mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedmasculinedrum major
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Leiter und Ausbilder eines Spielmannszuges
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Tambourmajor
- Tambourmajors genitive
- Tambourmajore plural
- Tambourmajoren dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Tambourmajor?
- /ˈtambuːɐ̯maˌjoːɐ̯/
- [ˈtambuːɐ̯maˌjoːɐ̯]
- [tamˈbuːɐ̯maˌjoːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Tambourmajor in German?
Tambourmajor appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).