drumbeater vs advocate

drumbeater and advocate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drumbeater	Yes	No	No	No
advocate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, advocate is a hypernym of drumbeater; that is, advocate is a word with a broader meaning than drumbeater:

Other hypernyms of drumbeater include advocator, exponent, proponent.

drumbeater (noun)	advocate (noun)
a fervent and even militant proponent of something	a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
	a lawyer who pleads cases in court

drumbeater (verb)	advocate (verb)
	push for something
	speak, plead, or argue in favor of