warning
Noun · AdjectiveUS[wawr-ning]/ˈwɔrnɪŋ/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)warnings
- a message informing of danger“a warning that still more bombs could explode”Type of informing, making knownKinds threat, caution, wake-up call, strategic warning, heads-up, alert, alarmism, false alarm, forewarning, tactical warning
- cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)“a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality”“the warning was to beware of surprises”“his final word of advice was not to play with matches”Synonyms: admonitionmonitionword of adviceType of adviceKinds example, deterrent example
- notification of something, usually in advance“they gave little warning of their arrival”“she had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin”Type of telling, apprisal
Adjective (1)
- serving to warn“shook a monitory finger at him”“an exemplary jail sentence”Synonyms: admonitorycautionaryexemplarymonitoryOpposite persuasiveSimilar dissuasive
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Translations
Noun instance of warning someone
- Spanish
- advertencia
- French
- avertissement
- German
- Warnung
- Italian
- avvertimento
- Portuguese
- aviso
- Turkish
- uyarı
- Russian
- предупрежде́ние predupreždénije
- Arabic
- تَحْذِير taḥḏīr
- Chinese
- 警告 jǐnggào
- Japanese
- 警告 keikoku
20 more languages
- Dutch
- waarschuwing
- Polish
- ostrzeżenie
- Swedish
- varning
- Greek
- προειδοποίηση proeidopoíisi
- Korean
- 경고 gyeonggo
- Hungarian
- figyelmeztetés
- Portuguese (PT)
- aviso
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 警告 jǐnggào
- Catalan
- advertència
- Czech
- varování
- Danish
- advarsel
- Estonian
- hoiatus
- Finnish
- varoitus
- Georgian
- გაფრთხილება gaprtxileba
- Hebrew
- אַזְהָרָה azhará
- Icelandic
- viðvörun
- Norwegian
- advarsel
- Romanian
- avertisment
- Scottish Gaelic
- rabhadh
- Serbo-Croatian
- upozorenje
Interjection warning of danger in signs
- Spanish
- advertencia
- German
- Achtung
- Turkish
- dikkat
- Russian
- внима́ние vnimánije
- Japanese
- 警告 keikoku
- Dutch
- waarschuwing
- Polish
- uwaga
- Indonesian
- peringatan
- Hungarian
- figyelem
- Czech
- pozor
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Warn′ing adjective
Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.
That warning timepiece never ceased.— Henry W. Longfellow
Warning piece, Warning wheel Horol., a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.
Warn′ing noun
1. Previous notice. “At a month's warning.” John Dryden
A great journey to take upon so short a warning.— Sir Roger L'Estrange
2. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
Could warning make the world more just or wise.— John Dryden
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54