warning signal

Questions about warning signal

What does warning signal mean?

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

What is another word for warning signal?

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

warning signal 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.