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/wˈɔrnɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Warning n.

Previous notice. "At a month's warning." "A great journey to take upon so short a warning."

Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition. "Could warning make the world more just or wise."

verb

Warn v. t. (past & past part. warned; pres. part. warning)

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." "Cornelius the centurion... was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee." "Who is it that hath warned us to the walls?"

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."

To ward off. (Obs.)

adjective

Warning adj. Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. "That warning timepiece never ceased."

Warning piece, Warning wheel (Horol.), a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

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Etymology of 'Warning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warning" Quotes from Famous Books

... in some ways a particularly sensible child for her age. She was quite to be trusted to play alone in the garden, for instance—she might have been safely left within reach of the most beautiful flowers in the conservatory without any special warning; not one would have been touched. She was truly, as Martin said, ...

— Hoodie • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

... he has ill-treated not only me, but Charmides the son of Glaucon, and Euthydemus the son of Diocles, and many others in the same way—beginning as their lover he has ended by making them pay their addresses to him. Wherefore I say to you, Agathon, 'Be not deceived by him; learn from me and take warning, and do not be a fool and learn by experience, as the ...

— Symposium • Plato

... me this evening, that perhaps their safe departure might be greatly forwarded by their falling down to York or Hampton, there to be ready at a moment's warning, to avail themselves of those favorable circumstances, which the present season sometimes offers, but of this yourself will be the ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI • Various

... their observing us. We afterwards learnt that this last was the fact; for they had heard a gun fired by one of captain Clarke's men, and believing that their enemies were approaching had fled into the mountains, first setting fire to the plains as a warning to their countrymen. We continued our course along several islands, and having made in the course of the day fifteen miles, encamped just above an island, at a spring on a high bank on the left side of the river. In the latter ...

— History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

... listening for my footsteps, fearing perhaps that I had met with some accident where there was no person to succour me. It was painful to think of her in this way, of the pain I had doubtless given her by stealing off without a word of warning. Springing to the floor, I flung out of the house and went down to the stream. It was better there, for now the greatest heat of the day was over, and the weltering sun began to look large and red and ...

— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson

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