alarm
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
See also Alarm
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English alarme, alarom, from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“‘to arms!, to the weapons!’”), ultimately from Latin arma (“‘arms, weapons’”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)m
[edit] Noun
|
Singular |
Plural |
alarm (countable and uncountable; plural alarms)
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Arming to answer in a night alarm. --Shakespeare.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. --Joel ii. 1.
- Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. --Alexander Pope.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. --Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- The clockradio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside
- An instance of an alarum ringing or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.
[edit] Related terms
[edit] Translations
summons to arms
notice of approaching danger
sudden surprise with fear or terror
|
mechanical contrivance for awaking
|
instance of an alarum ringing or clanging
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
|
[edit] See also
[edit] Verb
|
Infinitive |
Third person singular |
Simple past |
Past participle |
Present participle |
to alarm (third-person singular simple present alarms, present participle alarming, simple past and past participle alarmed)
(transitive)
- To call to arms for defense
- To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
- To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
- To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- To keep in excitement; to disturb.
[edit] Translations
to call to arms
to give notice (by sound or otherwise) of approaching danger
|
|
to surprise with apprehension of danger
|
to keep in excitement; to disturb
|
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
|
[edit] Related terms
[edit] References
- alarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Croatian
[edit] Noun
alarm m. sg.
- An alarm
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
alarm n. (plural alarmen, diminutive alarmpje, diminutive plural alarmpjes)
- An alarm
[edit] Related terms
- alarmeren (verb)
- etc.
