Definitions for tocsins

tocsins toc·sin

Spelling: [tok-sin]
IPA: /ˈtɒk sɪn/

Tocsins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in tocsins (cinosst).

Definitions for tocsins

noun

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

Origin of tocsins

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

Examples for tocsins

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tocsins
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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