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Antonyms for toll

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : tohl
Phonetic Transcription : toÊŠl

Definition of toll

Origin :
  • "tax, fee," Old English toll, variant of toln, cognate with Old Norse tollr, Old Frisian tolen, Old High German zol, German Zoll, representing an early Germanic borrowing from Late Latin tolonium "custom house," from Latin telonium "tollhouse," from Greek teloneion "tollhouse," from telones "tax-collector," from telos "tax" (see tele-; for sense, cf. finance). Originally in a general sense of "payment exacted by an authority;" meaning "charge for right of passage along a road" is from late 15c.
  • noun fee
  • noun damage, deaths
  • verb ring out
Example sentences :
  • We were within the vestibule before he had begun to toll the years.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
  • Because, as goddess of the land, she claims her toll, the toll of human blood.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • At the first stroke of twelve the prison-bell began to toll.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Suddenly the bell began to toll with slow and regular strokes.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • The church bell began to toll, and Kate started up and listened.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • He had reached the battle-ground where death had claimed its toll of human passion.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • The toll is three piastres, (about twelve cents,) for a man and horse.
  • Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke
  • Let poverty do its worst in exacting its toll of humiliation.
  • Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
  • As long as men will travel on the water, the sea-gods will take their toll.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • In this way they escape the payment of Chinese likin, or toll taxes.
  • Extract from : « Where Half The World Is Waking Up » by Clarence Poe

Synonyms for toll

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