burglar alarm

1. 1.

   a loud warning signal produced by a burglar alarm

   “they could hear the burglar alarm a mile away”

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2. 2.

   a warning device that is tripped off by the occurrence of a burglary

   Broaderalarm

Questions about burglar alarm

What does burglar alarm mean?

burglar alarm means "a loud warning signal produced by a burglar alarm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is burglar alarm a common word?

burglar alarm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.