Drummonds

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Members of the Scottish family or people bearing the surname Drummond, often associated with a historic Scottish noble line
2. The collective group of people who share the Drummond surname, a name of Scottish origin tied to an old aristocratic house
3. People who carry the Scottish family name Drummond, traced back to a medieval noble lineage in Perthshire

Etymology: "Drummonds" is the plural of "Drummond," a surname, so the form itself is simply the family name in its plural, as in referring to several families of that name. The base name, Drummond, comes from a Scottish place name, and the "-s" carries the patronymic sense of "descendants of" or "the family of" that the source identifies. English has many surnames formed this way, such as "Williams" or "Jacobs," where the final "-s" once meant "son of."