smoke alarm

1. 1.

   an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke

   Synonymsfire alarm

   Broaderalarm

Questions about smoke alarm

What does smoke alarm mean?

smoke alarm means "an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke".

What is another word for smoke alarm?

Close synonyms include fire 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 smoke alarm a common word?

smoke alarm 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.