Toll
Meaning of Toll
noun
- a charge payable to use a bridge or road.
motorway tolls
a toll bridge
- the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.
the toll of dead and injured mounted
- charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road).
the transport minister opposes tolling existing roads
the report advocates motorway tolling
Old English (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. toll1 (sense 2 of the noun) (late 19th century) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death).
verb- (with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement.
the cathedral bells began to toll for evening service
the priest began tolling the bell
- a single ring of a bell.
she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll
late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’.
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Toll
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- Toll is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Toll synonyms
Meaning price:
Meaning bell:
Meaning a price asked for goods or services:
Meaning a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services:
Meaning the action or process of paying someone or something or of being paid:
Meaning an act of levying a tax, fee, or fine:
Meaning a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports:
Meaning an obligatory payment; a fee:
Meaning a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions:
Meaning a payment levied on the transfer of property, for licences, and for the legal recognition of documents:
Meaning a tax or similar compulsory payment:
Meaning an arithmetical value, expressed by a word, symbol, or figure, representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations:
Meaning an act of determining the total number of something:
Meaning a current score or amount:
Meaning the whole number or amount of something:
Meaning a particular amount of money:
Meaning the number of points, goals, runs, etc. achieved in a game or by a team or an individual:
Meaning the action or process of calculating or estimating something:
Meaning the action of mentioning a number of things one by one:
Meaning an official list or record of names or items:
Meaning a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form:
Meaning a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building:
Meaning a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other:
Meaning a list or catalogue:
Meaning a report or description of an event or experience:
Meaning a cylinder formed by winding flexible material round a tube or by turning it over and over on itself without folding:
Meaning a list or plan showing turns of duty or leave for individuals or groups in an organization:
Meaning (in a book or set of books) an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc. with reference to the pages on which they are mentioned:
Meaning a book or website listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and phone numbers:
Meaning hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement:
Meaning (of a bell or bells) ring loudly or in a peal:
Meaning (of a bell) ring solemnly, especially for a death or funeral:
Meaning emit or cause to emit sound:
Meaning meet and come into violent conflict:
Meaning make or cause to make a clang:
Meaning (especially of a bell) emit a low-pitched, resonant sound:
Meaning make a loud, deep, resonant sound:
Meaning (of a sound, voice, etc.) fill or echo throughout a place:
Meaning (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo:
Words that rhyme with Toll
toll, atoll, pseudatoll, intertoll, Stoll, extoll, superextoll
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