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admonition
What does admonition mean?
admonition (noun): cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use admonition in a sentence?
- This admonition is worth remembering. (Tatoeba sentence #10693015 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce admonition?
/ˌædməˈnɪʃən/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does admonition come from?
From Middle English amonicioun, from Old French amonicion, from Latin admonitio, stem of admonere.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of admonition?
Words related to admonition
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “admonition” mean?
the process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery
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cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
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the boss or manager of a particular workplace or section of a workplace, particularly a factory
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a thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof
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