alarm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English alarme, alarom, borrowed from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”).
Inflected forms:
form: alarms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alarum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alarms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alarming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alarmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alarmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: alarum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Arming to answer in a night alarm.
gloss: Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.
gloss: A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The fire alarm is located high on the wall to prevent tampering.
gloss: A sudden attack; a disturbance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Lord Marshal, command our officers-at-arms
Be ready to direct these home alarms.
Is it then true, as distant rumours run,
that crowds of rivals for thy mother's charms
thy Palace fill with insults and alarms?
gloss: Sudden surprise with fear or terror caused by the apprehension of danger; a feeling of heightened alertness to risk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: His actions caused alarm among all the other people in the store, who hurried to leave.
Alarm and resentment spread through the camp.
gloss: A mechanical device for awaking people or rousing their attention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The clock radio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside.
gloss: An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Last night's alarm turned out to be nothing, but it was terrifying at the time.
gloss: To call to arms for defense.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sudden drop in temperature should alarm you into taking precautions.
Her illness started to alarm the doctors, who ordered more tests.
When the carriage drew up in the grass-grown court yard before the hall-door, two lazy-looking men, whose appearance well accorded with that of the place which they tenanted, alarmed by the obstreperous barking of a great chained dog, ran out from some half-ruinous out-houses, and took charge of the horses; […]
gloss: To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The tower cab supervisor and various pilots stated that the LLWAS system frequently alarms because of the thunderstorm activity present, and that airspeed losses are common as a result of convective wind shear.
gloss: To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The loud bang in the hallway seemed to alarm everyone in the building.
gloss: To keep in excitement; to disturb.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: alarmable
alarm-bell
alarm bell
alarm call
alarm clock
alarm fatigue
alarm gauge
alarmism
alarmist
alarmistic
alarmless
alarmone
alarm reaction
alarm substance
alarm system
baby alarm
bedwetting alarm
burglar alarm
car alarm
carbon monoxide alarm
door alarm
false alarm
fauxcellarm
fire alarm
five-alarm
heat alarm
hustle alarm
multialarm
nonalarm
radio alarm
raise the alarm
rape alarm
realarm
silent alarm
smoke alarm
sound the alarm
sprinkler alarm
state of alarm
still alarm
tocsin
Derived words: alarming
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: трево́га
roman: trevóga
lang: Bulgarian
word: ала́рма
roman: alárma
lang: Catalan
word: alarma
lang: Dutch
word: alarm
lang: Dutch
word: alarmsignaal
lang: Esperanto
word: alarmo
lang: Estonian
word: häire
lang: Finnish
word: hälytys
lang: Galician
word: alarma
lang: Georgian
word: განგაში
roman: gangaši
lang: German
word: Alarm
lang: German
word: Alarmsignal
lang: Greek
word: συναγερμός
roman: synagermós
lang: Hindi
word: चेतावनी
roman: cetāvnī
lang: Hungarian
word: riadó
lang: Italian
word: allarme
lang: Japanese
word: 注意
roman: chūi
lang: Macedonian
word: тре́вога
roman: trévoga
lang: Malay
word: penggera
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: alarm
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: alarm
lang: Old English
word: wōma
lang: Polish
word: alarm
lang: Portuguese
word: alarme
lang: Russian
word: трево́га
roman: trevóga
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: rabhadh
lang: Spanish
word: alarma
lang: Spanish
word: rebato
lang: Uzbek
word: taxlika