Definitions for Tocsin

Tocsin toc·sin

Spelling: [tok-sin]
IPA: /ˈtɒk sɪn/

Tocsin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Tocsin (cinost).

Definitions for Tocsin

noun

  1. a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
  2. a bell used to sound an alarm.

Origin of Tocsin

1580-90; Middle French Provençal tocasenh literally, (it) strikes (the) bell, equivalent to toca, 3rd singular present of tocar to strike, tou

Examples for Tocsin

Drums can be heard beating the alarm, and the tocsin peals from the churches.

Immediately he dreamt that he heard the tocsin and took part in the events of June, 1848.

What priest does not know that tocsin of the night, and the start from peaceful slumbers?

It was the tocsin of their doom, of the downfall of their establishments, and the ruin of their work.

The tocsin sounded in the Senate was heard in the lower house.

Her motto, "Truth for authority and not authority for truth," is still the tocsin of reform.

Come on, stand up, brother, father, toll the tocsin [alarm bell]!

The tocsin, says a journal of the period, was heard on all sides.

The tocsin rang impatiently, but other help (if that were any) there was none.

On the 15th of October, at six in the morning, the tocsin was sounded in Paris.

Word Value for Tocsin
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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