Alarum

ahd-5
  • noun. A warning or alarm, especially a call to arms.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as alarm.
  • noun. Same as alarm, but now used only in sense 4, except poetically.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See alarm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A danger signal or warning.
  • noun. A call to arms.
  • verb. To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger