[təʊl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a charge payable to use a bridge or road
(e.g: motorway tolls)

- the number of deaths or casualties arising from a natural disaster, conflict, accident, etc.
(e.g: the toll of dead and injured mounted)


Phrases:
- take its toll

Origin:
Old English toll (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. toll (late 19th century) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death)

[təʊl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road)
(e.g: the transport minister opposes tolling existing roads)


Phrases:
- take its toll

Origin:
Old English toll (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. toll (late 19th century) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death)

[təʊl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement
(e.g: the cathedral bells began to toll for evening service)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’

[təʊl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a single ring of a bell
(e.g: she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll ‘drag, pull’