Alarm: Definition and part of speech

Alarm

  1. n. A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.
  2. n. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
  3. n. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
  4. n. A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
  5. n. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.