Tocsin Definition

tŏksĭn
noun
An alarm bell.
Webster's New World
Its sound.
Webster's New World
Any alarm, or sound of warning.
Webster's New World
A warning; an omen.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Tocsin

Noun

Singular:
tocsin
Plural:
tocsins

Origin of Tocsin

  • French alteration of toquassen from Old French touque-sain from Old Provençal tocasenh tocar to strike (from Vulgar Latin toccāre) senh bell (from Late Latin signum) (from Latin signal sign)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French toquesain (modern tocsin), from Provençal tocasenh, from tocar "˜strike, touch' + senh "˜bell'.

    From Wiktionary

Tocsin Sentence Examples

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • His arrest was decreed; but he had the generale sounded and the tocsin rung, and tried to rescue Robespierre, who was under arrest in the hall of the Comite de Siirete Generale.

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Words Starting With

TTOTOC

Words Ending With

NINSIN

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