tocsin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɒksɪn/    美 /ˈtɑksɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.
    — At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
  2. A bell used to sound an alarm.

词形变化

tocsins plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French toquesain (modern tocsin), from Old Occitan tocasenh, from tocar (“strike, touch”) + senh (“bell”).
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