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Definition of Warn
Warn

To refuse.

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.

To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.

To ward off.

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Warn Quotations

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.
David E. Price

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
Neil Kinnock

Warn Translations

warn in Afrikaans is waarsku
warn in Danish is advare
warn in Dutch is waarschuwen
warn in Finnish is varoittaa
warn in French is avertir, avertissons, avertis, avertissez
warn in German is warnen
warn in Italian is dissuadere
warn in Latin is praecipio, precipio
warn in Portuguese is advirta
warn in Spanish is apremiar, desaconsejar


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