Alarums
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of alarum: automatic warning signals, typically audible alarms, that alert people to imminent danger.
“The alarums rang out across the castle walls as the enemy troops approached at dawn.”
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Archaic form of alarms, starts ALA, ends -UMS, three vowels A, A, U
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Archaic but valid in most dictionaries, ALARM is a useful sub-word, moderate tile value
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