Usually means: Warning signal indicating immediate danger.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word alarm bell:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. alarm bell: Merriam-Webster
  2. alarm bell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alarm bell: Vocabulary.com
  4. alarm-bell, alarm bell: Wordnik
  5. alarm-bell, alarm bell: Wiktionary
  6. Alarm bell, alarm bell: Dictionary.com
  7. alarm bell: Rhymezone
  8. alarm-bell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. alarm bell: FreeDictionary.org
  10. alarm bell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. alarm bell: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. alarm bell: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alarm bell: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alarm bell: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See alarm_bells as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alarm bell)

noun:  (figuratively, usually in the plural) A sudden awareness of danger.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see alarm, bell.

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