alarm
See also: Alarm
English
Alternative forms
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈlɑːm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlɑɹm/
- Hyphenation: alarm
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Noun
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.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- 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.
- A sudden attack; disturbance.
- Shakespeare
- these home alarms
- Alexander Pope
- thy palace fill with insults and alarms
- Shakespeare
- 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 alarm ringing, beeping 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.
Derived terms
- alarm bell
- alarm clock
- alarm reaction
- false alarm
- fire alarm
- multialarm
- raise the alarm
Translations
summons to arms
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notice of approaching danger
sudden surprise with fear or terror
mechanical contrivance for awaking
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instance of an alarm ringing or clanging
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See also
Verb
alarm (third-person singular simple present alarms, present participle alarming, simple past and past participle alarmed)
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
- (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
Translations
to call to arms
to give notice (by sound or otherwise) of approaching danger
to surprise with apprehension of danger
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to keep in excitement; to disturb
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References
- alarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Italian all' arme (“to arms”), allarme; cf. also French alarme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aːˈlɑrm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: alarm
- Rhymes: -ɑrm
Derived terms
- alarmbel
- alarmcentrale
- alarmklok
- alarmnummer
- alarmsignaal
- luchtalarm
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
alarm m (definite singular alarmen, indefinite plural alarmer, definite plural alarmene)
- an alarm
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
alarm m (definite singular alarmen, indefinite plural alarmar, definite plural alarmane)
- an alarm
Derived terms
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.larm/
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Declension
Derived terms
- alarmowy
- alarmować
References
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “alarm”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish): “z włosk. all’ arme! ‘do broni’”
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎlarm/
- Hyphenation: a‧larm
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “alarm” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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