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Warning   /wˈɔrnɪŋ/   Listen
Warning

noun
1.
A message informing of danger.
2.
Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness).  Synonyms: admonition, monition, word of advice.  "The warning was to beware of surprises" , "His final word of advice was not to play with matches"
3.
Notification of something, usually in advance.  "She had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin"
adjective
1.
Serving to warn.  Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory.  "An exemplary jail sentence"


Warn

verb
1.
Notify of danger, potential harm, or risk.  "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking"
2.
Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior.  Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish.  "I warn you against false assumptions" , "She warned him to be quiet"
3.
Ask to go away.
4.
Notify, usually in advance.



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"Warning" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Festival, father came home a little earlier from his work, to untie the palm-branch. He had put it away very carefully in a corner, warning Leibel not to attempt to go near it. But it was useless warning him. Leibel had his own troubles. The top of the citron haunted him. Why had he wanted to bite it off? What good had it done him to taste it when it was bitter as gall? ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... night husband and wife enjoyed a quiet hour, hand in hand, before the wood fire. The sunlight and warmth of years gone by, coined into stick and fagots from the forest, were released again in glow and warmth, making playful lights and warning shadows. The golden minutes passed by. The prattle of lovers and the sober wisdom of experience blended. Then, night's oblivion. Again, the cheerful morning meal and the merry company, the incense of worship, and the separation of each and ...
— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis
... yield this once, but—" There she stopped herself with a laugh. Of what use to explain to him?—him who never listened to explanations, who did not care a fig why people did as he wished, but was content that they did. As for warning him about "next time"—how ridiculous! She could hear his penetrating, rousing voice saying: "We'll deal with 'next time' when ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... the order instantly; but the warning came too late, for there was a sudden check and Brace nearly went overboard, and in fact would have taken a header if Briscoe had not made a ...
— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn
... forestalled by H. Dixon's Book). Carlyle is not so up to work as of old (I hear). Indeed, he wrote me he was ill last Summer, and obliged to cut Frederick and be off to Scotland and Idleness: the Doctors warned him of Congestion of Brain: a warning he scorned. But what more likely? The last account I had of Alfred Tennyson from Mrs. A. was a good one. Frederic T. is settled at Jersey. I cannot make up my mind to go to see any of these good, noble men: ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald


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