Warning
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
warning
adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory},
{cautionary}, {exemplary}, {monitory}, {warning(a)}]
n 1: a message informing of danger; "a warning that still more
bombs could explode"
2: 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" [syn: {admonition}, {monition}, {warning},
{word of advice}]
3: notification of something, usually in advance; "they gave
little warning of their arrival"; "she had only had four
days' warning before leaving Berlin"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warn \Warn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Warning}.] [OE. warnen, warnien, AS. warnian, wearnian, to
take heed, to warn; akin to AS. wearn denial, refusal, OS.
warning, wernian, to refuse, OHG. warnen, G. warnen to warn,
OFries. warna, werna, Icel. varna to refuse; and probably to
E. wary. ????.]
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1. To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to
give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify
or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to
warn a tenant to quit a house. "Warned of the ensuing
fight." --Dryden.
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Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by
an holy angel to send for thee. --Acts x. 22.
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Who is it that hath warned us to the walls? --Shak.
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2. To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or
evil; to caution against anything that may prove
injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus'
danger, urging swift relief." --Dryden.
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3. To ward off. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warning \Warn"ing\, n.
1. Previous notice. "At a month's warning." --Dryden.
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A great journey to take upon so short a warning.
--L'Estrange.
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2. Caution against danger, or against faults or evil
practices which incur danger; admonition; monition.
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Could warning make the world more just or wise.
--Dryden.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "warning":
admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory,
advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call,
call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue,
commination, consultation, consultative, consultatory,
contribution, council, counsel, cue, demand, demand for,
denunciation, determent, deterrence, deterrent, didactic,
direction, directive, draft, drain, duty, empty threat, exaction,
exemplary, exhortation, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulation,
expostulative, expostulatory, extortion, extortionate demand,
foreboding, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening,
forewarning, frightening off, guidance, heavy demand,
heavy with meaning, hint, hortation, hortative, hortatory, idea,
idle threat, imminence, implied threat, imposition, impost, indent,
indicative, insistent demand, instruction, instructive,
intimidation, intuitive, levy, meaningful, menace, monition,
monitorial, monitory, moralistic, nonnegotiable demand, notice,
notificational, notifying, office, opinion, order, parley,
passing word, pointer, preachy, precursive, precursory, predictive,
prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging,
prognostic, prognosticative, promise of harm, proposal,
recommendation, recommendatory, remonstrance, remonstrant,
remonstrative, remonstratory, requirement, requisition, rush,
rush order, sententious, significant, steer, suggestion,
sword of Damocles, talking out of, tax, taxing, thought, threat,
threateningness, threatfulness, tip, tip-off, tribute, ultimatum,
whisper
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