What does fire alarm mean?

fire alarm means "a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fire alarm?

Close synonyms include smoke alarm. 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 fire alarm a common word?

fire 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.

fire alarm — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

noun

2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
Broaderalarm
2.
an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke
Synonymssmoke alarm
Broaderalarm

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What does fire alarm mean?: fire alarm means "a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.
What is another word for fire alarm?

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