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Another word for tocsin

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Noun

  1. A signal that warns of imminent danger

      1. A statement telling of or an indication providing evidence of impending danger, difficulty, or misfortune:
      2. Advice to be cautious:
      3. A cautionary or deterrent example:
      1. Vigilantly attentive; watchful:
      2. Mentally responsive and perceptive; quick.
      3. Brisk or lively in action:
      1. A warning or alarm, especially a call to arms.
      1. Sudden fear or concern caused by the realization of danger or an impending setback.
      2. A warning of existing or approaching danger:
      3. A device that is used to warn of danger by means of a sound or signal:
    See also:

    warn

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Another word for tocsin

Noun
      1. An indicator, such as a gesture or colored light, that serves as a means of communication.
      2. A message communicated by such means.
      3. Something that incites action:
      1. A device in which compressed air or steam is driven against a rotating perforated disk to create a loud, often wailing sound as a signal or warning.
      2. An electronic device producing a similar sound as a signal or warning:
      3. Any of several slender aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae of eastern North America, having external gills, small forelimbs, and no hind limbs.
      1. One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
      2. A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
      3. The hard smooth keratinous material forming the outer covering of the horns of cattle or related animals.
      1. (historical) A bell rung to signal danger or emergency.
      2. A bell which is rung to indicate a pre-arranged time, especially to mark a desired moment for waking up, performing a specific action etc.
      3. Used other than as an idiom: see alarm,‎ bell.
    See also:

    warning

    alarm

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Sentence Examples

  • His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.

  • On the 1st of September the Commune decreed that on the following day the tocsin should be rung, all ablebodied citizens convened in the Champs de Mars, and 60,000 volunteers enrolled for the defence of the country.

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  • They sounded the tocsin, mustered their partisans, and released the prisoners.

  • At the close of this troubled century peace descends upon exhausted passions; and amidst the choir of young and ardent voices celebrating the national reconciliation, the tocsin no longer sounds its sinister and persistent bass.

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