Usually means: Warning sound or signal; alarm.
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  1. alarum: Merriam-Webster
  2. alarum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alarum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alarum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alarum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alarum, alarum: Wordnik
  7. alarum: Wiktionary
  8. alarum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alarum: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Alarum, alarum: Dictionary.com
  11. Alarum (band), Alarum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Alarum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. alarum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. alarum: Rhymezone
  15. Alarum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. alarum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. alarum: FreeDictionary.org
  18. alarum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. alarum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. alarum: Encyclopedia

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  1. alarum: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alarum)

▸ noun:  (normally archaic) A danger signal or warning.
▸ noun:  A call to arms.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.

Similar:
alarm, alert, warning signal, larum, larum-bell, avertiment, portendment, warning, emergence, cautionary tale, more...

Opposite:
calm, peace, tranquility

Adjectives:
loud, wild, short, first, new, great, shrill, electric, last, stern, sudden



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Similar:
alarm, alert, warning signal, larum, larum-bell, avertiment, portendment, warning, emergence, cautionary tale, more...

Opposite:
calm, peace, tranquility

Adjectives:
loud, wild, short, first, new, great, shrill, electric, last, stern, sudden



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