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Another word for tocsin

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Noun

  1. A signal that warns of imminent danger

    See also:

    warn

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Another word for tocsin

Noun
  1. See also:

    warning

    alarm

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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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