different between warning vs alarum

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??n??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n??
• Hyphenation: warn?ing

Verb

warning

1. present participle of warn

Noun

warning (plural warnings)

1. The action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone.
2. Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.

Derived terms

• tactical warning
• strategic warning
• warning sign

Translations

Interjection

warning

1. Used to warn of danger in signs and notices.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).

Noun

alarum (plural alarums)

1. (archaic) A danger signal or warning.
2. A call to arms.
   • 1969, Michael Arlen, Living Room War

     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.

   • 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus. Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press. p. 95.

     On the cable news channels, especially, there were teary-eyed interviews with bystanders; alarums from both the gun control advocates on the one side and the Second Amendment nuts on the other; and--inevitably, inappropriately--debates over what the shooting might mean for this closely-watched Senate race.

Derived terms

• alarums and excursions

Verb

alarum (third-person singular simple present alarums, present participle alaruming, simple past and past participle alarumed)

1. (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.

Usage notes

• Alarum is an old spelling of alarm (as a noun or a verb), which has stayed around as a deliberate archaism. Possibly it is retained because of its use in Shakespeare's plays.

See also

• alarm

Anagrams

• marula

Latin

Noun

?l?rum f

1. genitive plural of ?la