alarm
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
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”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)m
Noun [edit]
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.
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Translations [edit]
summons to arms
notice of approaching danger
sudden surprise with fear or terror
mechanical contrivance for awaking
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instance of an alarum ringing or clanging
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Verb [edit]
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.
Translations [edit]
to call to arms
to give notice (by sound or otherwise) of approaching danger
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to surprise with apprehension of danger
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to keep in excitement; to disturb
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References [edit]
- alarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
alarm n (plural alarmen, diminutive alarmpje)
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Polish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
alarm m
Declension [edit]
declension of alarm
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Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ǎlarm/
- Hyphenation: a‧larm
Noun [edit]
àlarm m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ларм)
Declension [edit]
declension of alarm
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | alarm | alarmi |
| genitive | alarma | alarma |
| dative | alarmu | alarmima |
| accusative | alarm | alarme |
| vocative | alarme | alarmi |
| locative | alarmu | alarmima |
| instrumental | alarmom | alarmima |
