alarm bell

1. 1.

   the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)

   Synonymstocsin

   Broaderalarm

Questions about alarm bell

What does alarm bell mean?

alarm bell means "the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)".

What is another word for alarm bell?

Close synonyms include tocsin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alarm bell a common word?

alarm bell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.