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warning

intj · name · noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːnɪŋ/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈwɔːnɪŋ]
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈwoɹnɪŋ/
  • General-American: [ˈwoɹnɪŋ]
  • General-American: /ˈwɔɹnɪŋ/
  • General-American: [ˈwɔɹnɪŋ]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)nɪŋ
  • CMU ARPABET: W AO1 R N IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Used to warn of danger in signs and notices.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An instance of warning someone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The boss gave him a warning that he would be fired if he did not desist from his behaviour.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

present participle of warn

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: admonition, monition, word of advice

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: advice

Narrower terms: example, deterrent example, lesson, object lesson

7

noun

Meaning 7

notification of something, usually in advance

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they gave little warning of their arrival
  • she had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: telling, apprisal, notification

8

noun

Meaning 8

a message informing of danger

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a warning that still more bombs could explode

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: informing, making known

Narrower terms: wake-up call, alarmism, alert, alerting, caution, caveat, false alarm, forewarning, premonition, heads-up, strategic warning, tactical warning, threat

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

188 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: внимание (vnimanie) — warning of danger in signs
  • Cebuano: pahibalo — warning of danger in signs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小心 (xiǎoxīn) — warning of danger in signs
  • Danish: advarsel — warning of danger in signs
  • Dutch: opgelet! — warning of danger in signs
  • Dutch: waarschuwing — warning of danger in signs
  • Finnish: vaara — warning of danger in signs
  • French: attention — warning of danger in signs
  • Georgian: ფრთხილად! (prtxilad!) — warning of danger in signs
  • German: Achtung — warning of danger in signs
  • German: Warnung — warning of danger in signs
  • Hebrew: זְהִירוּת (z'hirút) — warning of danger in signs
  • Hungarian: figyelem — warning of danger in signs
  • Hungarian: vigyázat — warning of danger in signs
  • Ibaloi: bangshaan — warning of danger in signs
  • Icelandic: aðvörun — warning of danger in signs
  • Icelandic: athugið! — warning of danger in signs
  • Icelandic: ATH! — warning of danger in signs
  • Indonesian: peringatan — warning of danger in signs
  • Macedonian: внима́ние (vnimánie) — warning of danger in signs
  • Malay: amaran — warning of danger in signs
  • Polish: uwaga — warning of danger in signs
  • Romanian: atenție — warning of danger in signs
  • Russian: внима́ние (vnimánije) — warning of danger in signs
  • Spanish: precaución — warning of danger in signs
  • Spanish: cuidado — warning of danger in signs
  • Spanish: advertencia — warning of danger in signs
  • Spanish: aviso — warning of danger in signs
  • Tagalog: babala — warning of danger in signs
  • Turkish: uyarı — warning of danger in signs
  • Ukrainian: ува́га (uváha) — warning of danger in signs
  • Albanian: paralajmërim — instance of warning someone
  • Arabic: تَحْذِير (taḥḏīr) — instance of warning someone
  • Arabic: إِنْذار (ʔinḏār) — instance of warning someone
  • Arabic: تَنْبِيه (tanbīh) — instance of warning someone
  • Arabic: إِنْذار (ʔinḏār) — instance of warning someone
  • Arabic: تَنْبِيه (tanbīh) — instance of warning someone
  • Armenian: նախազգուշացում (naxazgušacʻum) — instance of warning someone
  • Armenian: զգուշացում (zgušacʻum) — instance of warning someone
  • Azerbaijani: xəbərdarlıq — instance of warning someone
  • Belarusian: папярэ́джанне (papjarédžannje) — instance of warning someone
  • Belarusian: папярэ́джаньне (papjarédžanʹnje) — instance of warning someone
  • Central Bikol: patanid — instance of warning someone
  • Bulgarian: предупрежде́ние (predupreždénie) — instance of warning someone
  • Catalan: advertència — instance of warning someone
  • Catalan: advertiment — instance of warning someone
  • Catalan: avís — instance of warning someone
  • Chinese Cantonese: 警告 (ging2 gou3) — instance of warning someone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 警告 (jǐnggào) — instance of warning someone
  • Czech: varování — instance of warning someone
  • Danish: advarsel — instance of warning someone
  • Dutch: waarschuwing — instance of warning someone
  • Dutch: waarning — instance of warning someone
  • Dutch: verwittiging — instance of warning someone
  • Esperanto: averto — instance of warning someone
  • Estonian: hoiatus — instance of warning someone
  • Finnish: varoittaminen — instance of warning someone
  • French: avertissement — instance of warning someone
  • Georgian: გაფრთხილება (gaprtxileba) — instance of warning someone
  • German: Warnung — instance of warning someone
  • German: Mahnung — instance of warning someone
  • Greek: προειδοποίηση (proeidopoíisi) — instance of warning someone
  • Ancient Greek: νουθεσία (nouthesía) — instance of warning someone
  • Hebrew: אַזְהָרָה (azhará) — instance of warning someone
  • Hindi: चेतावनी (cetāvnī) — instance of warning someone
  • Hungarian: figyelmeztetés — instance of warning someone
  • Icelandic: viðvörun — instance of warning someone
  • Icelandic: aðvörun — instance of warning someone
  • Italian: avvertimento — instance of warning someone
  • Japanese: 警告 (keikoku) — instance of warning someone
  • Kazakh: ескерту (eskertu) — instance of warning someone
  • Korean: 경고 (gyeonggo) — instance of warning someone
  • Kyrgyz: эскертүү (eskertüü) — instance of warning someone
  • Latin: monstrum — instance of warning someone
  • Latvian: brīdinājums — instance of warning someone
  • Lithuanian: įspėjimas — instance of warning someone
  • Lower Tanana: tedhit — instance of warning someone
  • Macedonian: предупреду́вање (predupredúvanje) — instance of warning someone
  • Malayalam: മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് (munnaṟiyippŭ) — instance of warning someone
  • Māori: ohititanga — instance of warning someone
  • Mongolian: анхааруулга (anxaaruulga) — instance of warning someone
  • Mongolian: сэргийлэл (sergiilel) — instance of warning someone
  • Norwegian Bokmål: advarsel — instance of warning someone
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: åtvaring — instance of warning someone
  • Old Norse: vǫrnuðr — instance of warning someone
  • Iranian Persian: هُشْدار (hošdâr) — instance of warning someone
  • Iranian Persian: اِخْطار (extâr) — instance of warning someone
  • Iranian Persian: تَحْذیر (tahzir) — instance of warning someone
  • Iranian Persian: تَنْبیه (tanbih) — instance of warning someone
  • Plautdietsch: Woarnunk — instance of warning someone
  • Polish: ostrzeżenie — instance of warning someone
  • Portuguese: aviso — instance of warning someone
  • Romagnol: avìș — instance of warning someone
  • Romanian: avertisment — instance of warning someone
  • Russian: предупрежде́ние (predupreždénije) — instance of warning someone
  • Russian: предостереже́ние (predosterežénije) — instance of warning someone
  • Scottish Gaelic: rabhadh — instance of warning someone
  • Serbo-Croatian: упозоре́ње — instance of warning someone
  • Serbo-Croatian: upozorénje — instance of warning someone
  • Slovak: varovanie — instance of warning someone
  • Slovene: obvestilo — instance of warning someone
  • Slovene: opozorilo — instance of warning someone
  • Spanish: advertencia — instance of warning someone
  • Spanish: aviso — instance of warning someone
  • Spanish: animadvertencia (disused) — instance of warning someone
  • Spanish: aldabonazo — instance of warning someone
  • Spanish: aldabada — instance of warning someone
  • Spanish: amonestamiento — instance of warning someone
  • Swedish: varning — instance of warning someone
  • Tagalog: babala — instance of warning someone
  • Tajik: танбеҳ (tanbeh) — instance of warning someone
  • Tajik: огоҳӣ (ogohi) — instance of warning someone
  • Tamil: எச்சரிக்கை (eccarikkai) — instance of warning someone
  • Tamil: எச்சரிப்பு (eccarippu) — instance of warning someone
  • Tamil: முன்னறிவிப்பு (muṉṉaṟivippu) — instance of warning someone
  • Turkish: uyarı — instance of warning someone
  • Turkish: ikaz — instance of warning someone
  • Ottoman Turkish: ایقاظ (ikâz) — instance of warning someone
  • Ukrainian: попере́дження (poperédžennja) — instance of warning someone
  • Ukrainian: застере́ження (zasteréžennja) — instance of warning someone
  • Ukrainian: перестере́ження (peresteréžennja) — instance of warning someone
  • Urdu: اِنْتِباہ (intibāh) — instance of warning someone
  • Urdu: تَحْذِیر (tahzīr) — instance of warning someone
  • Urdu: تَن٘بِیہ (tambīh) — instance of warning someone
  • Urdu: چیتاوَنی (cetāvanī) — instance of warning someone
  • Urdu: خبردار (xabar-dār) — instance of warning someone
  • Urdu: ہشدار (huśdār) — instance of warning someone
  • Uyghur: ئاگاھلاندۇرۇش (agahlandurush) — instance of warning someone
  • Uzbek: tanbeh — instance of warning someone
  • Uzbek: ogohlantirish — instance of warning someone
  • Vietnamese: sự báo trước — instance of warning someone
  • Armenian: նշան (nšan) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Armenian: նշանակ (nšanak) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Basque: ohartarazpen — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Central Bikol: patanid — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Bulgarian: предупрежде́ние (predupreždénie) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Catalan: avís — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Czech: varování — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Danish: advarsel — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Dutch: waarschuwing — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Dutch: waarning — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Esperanto: admono — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Finnish: varoitus — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • French: avertissement — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Georgian: გაფრთხილება (gaprtxileba) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • German: Warnung — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • German: Mahnung — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Hindi: चेतावनी (cetāvnī) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Hungarian: figyelmeztetés — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Icelandic: viðvörun — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Icelandic: aðvörun — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Icelandic: varnaðarorð — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Indonesian: peringatan — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Indonesian: perhatian — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Irish: fógra — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Italian: monito — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Japanese: 警告 (keikoku) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Khmer: ការព្រមាន (kaaprɔɔmiən) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Korean: 경고 (gyeonggo) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Latin: monitum — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Latin: monitus — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Macedonian: предупреду́вање (predupredúvanje) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Malay: amaran — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Malayalam: മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് (munnaṟiyippŭ) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Middle English: wacche word — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Old Norse: vǫrnuðr — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Plautdietsch: Woarnunk — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Polish: ostrzeżenie — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Portuguese: aviso — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Romagnol: avìș — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Spanish: advertencia — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Spanish: aviso — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Spanish: animadvertencia (disused) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Spanish: alerta — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Swahili: ilani — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Swedish: varning — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Tagalog: babala — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Tamil: எச்சரிக்கை (eccarikkai) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Tamil: முன்னறிவிப்பு (muṉṉaṟivippu) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Turkish: uyarı — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Ottoman Turkish: وعظ (vaʼz) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Ukrainian: попере́дження (poperédžennja) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Ukrainian: застере́ження (zasteréžennja) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Ukrainian: пересторо́га (perestoróha) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Ukrainian: засторо́га (zastoróha) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Ukrainian: перестере́ження (peresteréžennja) — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Vietnamese: lời cảnh báo — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
  • Vietnamese: cảnh báo — something spoken or written that is intended to warn
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