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. (broadly) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
5. (US) A tollbooth.
6. (UK, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
7. (England, obsolete, regional) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Verb

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

Verb

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

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
2. (transitive) To tear in pieces.
3. (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
4. (transitive) 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

tell

• Verb
• Noun
• Noun

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Synonyms

tax

duty

ring

💍

peal

fee

sound

🔉

charge

customs

🛃

customs duty

bell

🔔

chime

levy

strike

tariff

custom

due

tribute

freephone service

consideration

price

clang

jingle

payment

💸

tinkle

ring a bell

cost

resound

play

knell

downfall

doom

destruction

clink

buzz

debit

deaths

damage

losses

customshouse

clank

bowing

lockage

ding dong

custom-house

impost

loss

heartbeat

💓

octroi

customhouse

bong

Translations

péage

peaje

pedaggio

tol

🔝

Maut

sonner

🔉

läuten

💍

Gebühr

pedágio

διόδια

luiden

🔉

kleppen

Mautgebühr

peatge

Abgabe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/təʊl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: toll

Inherited from Old English: toll

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Tol

Cognate with Dutch: tol

Cognate with German: Zoll

Cognate with Danish: told

Cognate with Swedish: tull

Cognate with Icelandic: tollur

In summary

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 *del- (“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”).