Main entry: admonition, monition, word of advice, warning
Definition: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
Usage: 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
Main entry: warning
Definition: notification of something, usually in advance
Usage: they gave little warning of their arrival; she had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin
Main entry: warning
Definition: a message informing of danger
Usage: a warning that still more bombs could explode
Main entry: warning, exemplary, cautionary, monitory, admonitory
Definition: serving to warn
Usage: shook a monitory finger at him; an exemplary jail sentence