toll

Meaning

Noun

1. A fee 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, etc.
2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
3. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
4. A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
5. A tollbooth.
6. (obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
7. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Verb

1. To impose a fee for the use of.
2. To levy a toll on (someone or something).
3. To take as a toll.
4. To pay a toll or tallage.

Verb

1. To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
2. To summon by ringing a bell.
3. To announce by ringing a bell.
4. To make a sound as if made by a bell.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
2. To tear in pieces.
3. To draw; entice; invite; allure.
4. To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

Verb

1. (obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
2. To suspend.

Verb

simple past and past participle of tell

Synonyms

tax

duty

ring

💍

peal

fee

charge

bell

🔔

customs duty

customs

🛃

sound

🔉

tariff

chime

levy

strike

freephone service

due

tribute

custom

resound

tinkle

ring a bell

play

consideration

payment

💸

clang

price

jingle

knell

cost

lockage

loss

losses

octroi

payoff

peel

perdition

pike

post

pound

💷

presentment

rate

recompense

remuneration

rendering

reward

ringing

ring the bell

ruin

take in

tax office

thump

tintinnabulation

tollage

tollbooth

wastage

wreck

write-off

Agra

long distance call

way leave

ringing of a bell

admission-paid

gabelle

stroke

taxation

lean back at ease

road-tax

strech oneself

toll thorough

raise tax

transit tax

toll charge

transit dues

transit duties

assessment

long distance telephone

beat

blow

bong

bowing

buzz

call

cess

clank

clink

contribution

credits

customhouse

custom-house

customshouse

damage

deaths

debit

destruction

doom

downfall

earnings

excise

excise duty

fall

give a ring

heartbeat

💓

impost

ding dong

Pronounced as (IPA)

/təʊl/

Etymology

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale.
Alternate etymology derives Old English toll, from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”).