tabor

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/

Definition of tabor

17 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small drum.
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noun

  1. A small drum.
  2. A small drum.
    “Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]”
  3. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
    “A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To make (a sound) with a tabor.
  2. To strike lightly and frequently.

name

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  9. A surname.
  10. A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
  11. (metonymically)The Transfiguration of Jesus
    “the light of Tabor”
  12. (US, abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
    “"I believe citizens of every community have the right to determine what's right for them," he said. "I don't think TABOR is a one-size fix. TABOR doesn't allow a community to determine where their future is going to go."”

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.

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