tatum
/ˈteɪtəm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A habitational surname from Old English.
name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
name
A female given name transferred from the surname.
name
A town in New Mexico.
name
A town in South Carolina.
name
A city in Panola County and Rusk County, Texas, named after settlers Albert and Mary Tatum.
noun
The shortest statistically significant time interval between successive notes in a rhythmic phrase or a musical piece.
Example Sentences
- "He had done so much to take his game to the next level, but it didn’t seem to matter. Jayson Tatum just couldn’t hit a shot."
- "By the time a letter from Marcy finally came, explaining that the entire time she had been living on the South Side in a Negro neighborhood near the university, and that she had a son whom she'd named Tatum Kubiac—"Tatum" after a famous jazz pianist—it seemed to make little difference."
- "The youngest ever Oscar-winner is an actress called Tatum O'Neal, who was ten when she won Best Supporting Act for the film Paper Moon (1973)."
- "In general, the music meter contains a nested grouping of pulses called metrical levels, where pulses on higher levels are subsets of the lower level pulses; the most salient level is known as the beat, and the lowest level is termed the tatum."
- "A tatum represents the lowest regular pulse train that a listener intuitively infers from the timing of perceived musical events (segments)."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: Tāta