warning bell

1. 1.

   a bell used to sound an alarm

   Synonymstocsin

   Broaderbell

Questions about warning bell

What does warning bell mean?

warning bell means "a bell used to sound an alarm".

What is another word for warning 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 warning bell a common word?

warning 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.