Noun: alarm
| Singular | alarm |
| Plural | alarms |
Sample Sentences
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Arming to answer in a night alarm. [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joel 2:1:]
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She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard. [1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:]
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The fire alarm is located high on the wall to prevent tampering.
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Lord Marshal, command our officers-at-arms
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Be ready to direct these home alarms. [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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Is it then true, as distant rumours run,
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that crowds of rivals for thy mother's charms
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thy Palace fill with insults and alarms? [1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page III:]
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His actions caused alarm among all the other people in the store, who hurried to leave.
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Alarm and resentment spread through the camp. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
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The clock radio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside.
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Last night's alarm turned out to be nothing, but it was terrifying at the time.
Nouns inflected like alarm
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English alarme, alarom, borrowed from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”). See: Middle English Nouns '
alarme', Latin Nouns '
arma'.