Alarum vs Larum - What's the difference?
alarum | larum |
A danger signal or warning.
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, chapter=20 A call to arms.
* c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth), Act I, scene II
* 1969 , (Michael Arlen), Living Room War
(archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.
* c. 1605 Shakespeare, Macbeth Act II, Scene I
As nouns the difference between alarum and larum
is that alarum is a danger signal or warning while larum is .As a verb alarum
is (archaic) to sound alarums, to sound an alarm.alarum
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
- (stage direction) A camp near Forres. Alarum within.
- It seems to me that by the same process they are also made less "real" - distinguished, in part, by the physical size of the television screen, which, for all the industry's advances, still shows one a picture of men three inches tall shooting at other men three inches tall, and trivialized, or at least tamed, by the enveloping cozy alarums of the household.
Derived terms
* alarums and excursionsSee also
* alarmVerb
(en verb)- "Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd Murther, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost."