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Meaning of 'toll' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Toll [ n.]
- The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
- A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
- A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
- A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
2 . Toll [ v. i.]
- To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
- To pay toll or tallage.
- To take toll; to raise a tax.
3 . Toll [ v. t.]
- To take away; to vacate; to annul.
- To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
- To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
- To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
- To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
- To collect, as a toll.

Meaning of 'toll' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . toll [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the sound of a bell being struck
Example in sentence:
  • saved by the bell;
  • she heard the distant toll of church bells
Meaning (2):
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
Example in sentence:
  • the cost in human life was enormous;
  • the price of success is hard work;
  • what price glory?
3 . toll [ v]
Meaning (3):
- ring slowly
Example in sentence:
  • For whom the bell tolls
Meaning (4):
- charge a fee for using
Example in sentence:
  • Toll the bridges into New York City

Nearby Words:

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