alarum

Other forms of alarum

plural

alarums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alarum

What does alarum mean?

alarum means "an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger".

How many syllables are in alarum?

alarum has 3 syllables: a-la-rum. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for alarum?

Close synonyms include alarm, alert, warning signal. 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 alarum a common word?

alarum 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.