Alarum
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈlɑ.ɹəm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Alarum is a noun meaning (normally archaic) A danger signal or warning.
Meaning
(normally archaic) A danger signal or warning.
More Meanings
- A call to arms.
- (archaic) An alarm clock.
- (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.
Example Sentences
Just another forum, then, sounding the usual alarums on the looming threat from global warming?
Ten minutes passed by the measure of the battered old alarum on the dresser shelf before the young man returned.
Come let vs meet them at the mountain foot, / And with a ſodaine and an hot alarum / Driue all their horſes headlong down the hill.
On the cable news channels, especially, there were teary-eyed interviews with bystanders; alarums from both the gun control advocates on the one side and the Second Amendment nuts on the other; and—inevitably, inappropriately—debates over what the shooting might mean for this closely-watched Senate race.
Word Forms
- alarums
- alaruming
- alarumed
Synonyms for alarum
Depending on context, synonyms include alarm, alert.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alarm, alert, larum, larum-bell, avertiment, portendment.
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