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alarum

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6 lettersPronunciation /əˈlɑ.ɹəm/Part of speech nounSorted aalmruStarts with AEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).

Used in a sentence

  • Just another forum, then, sounding the usual alarums on the looming threat from global warming?
  • Come let vs meet them at the mountain foot, / And with a ſodaine and an hot alarum / Driue all their horſes headlong down the hill.
  • Ten minutes passed by the measure of the battered old alarum on the dresser shelf before the young man returned.

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