Admonish

Definitions: Admonish

Admonish

Verb

1. Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far";"I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet".

2. Warn strongly; put on guard.

3. Take to task; "He admonished the child for his bad behavior".

Date "admonish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Admonish \Ad*mon"ish\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Admonished; present participle verb or noun Admonishing.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To admonish your child, or son, or some young person, denotes that your generous principles will keep you in favor, and fortune will be added to your gifts. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Synonyms: Admonish

Synonyms: caution (v), discourage (v), monish (v), reprove (v), warn (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Advice	Expostulate; (dissuade); admonish; (warn).
Disapprobation	Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.
Warning	Verb: warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice, give warning, dehort; menace; (threaten); put on one's guard; sound the alarm; croak.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Admonish

English words defined with "admonish": Amoneste ♦ discourage ♦ Foreadmonish ♦ Monest, monish ♦ Preadmonish, Premonish ♦ To advise one's self ♦ warn. (references)

Specialty definitions using "admonish": Maccabees, Books of the ♦ Stone. (references)

Etymologies containing "admonish": Admonition ♦ Monest, monish, monition, monument ♦ Praemunire. (references)

Author	Quotation
Publilius Syrus	Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Women	Saudi Arabia	During the year, Mutawwa'in continued to admonish and harass women to wear their abayas and cover their hair. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Other considerations of the highest importance admonish us to cherish our Union and to cling to the Government which supports it.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Our position in relation to the most powerful nations of the earth, and the present condition of Europe, admonish us to cherish this arm of our national defense with peculiar care.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Admonish" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Admonish" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	75%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Expression using "admonish": admonish of. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "admonish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aanmaan (scold). (various references)

Albanian		qortoj (berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), paralajmëroj (bespeak, bode, caution, exhort, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, hint, notice, presage, previse, threaten, tip off, tip the wink, warn), këshilloj (advise, counsel, exhort, prescribe, recommend, suggest, warn). (various references)

Arabic		‏نصح (admonition, advise, counsel, exhort, exhortation, preach, recommend, tip off), ‏لام (blame, censure, fault, reprehend, reproach, twit), ‏حذر (advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏حث (actuate, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏عاتب (blamer, quarrel, reproach), ‏ذكر (citation, invoke, masculine, mate, mention, recall, recollect, remember, remind, rod, son). (various references)

Bulgarian		съветвам (advise, exhort, monitor, recommend, warn), увещавам (exhort, expostulate, persuade, reason with, remonstrate, urge), убеждавам (argue, assure, coax, convince, exhort, induce, lead, persuade, press, prevail, satisfy, talk over, urge, win), смъмрям (berate), напомням (partake, recall, relish, remind, smack), предупреждавам (caution, factorize, forewarn, notice, premonish, previse, warn), поучавам (edify, instruct, lecture, moralize, preach, teach). (various references)

Chinese		誨 (instruct), 諫 , 儆 (warn), 告誡 (warn), 告诫 (Admonished, Admonishing). (various references)

Czech		napomínat (preach), nabádat (encourage, exhort, impel, instigate, spur, urge). (various references)

Dutch		vermanen (scold), manen (dun, dun for payment, mane, scold), aansporen (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, scold, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), aanmanen (dun, dun for payment, scold). (various references)

Esperanto		admoni (scold). (various references)

Faeroese		studla (advance, scold, suggest), mæla til (scold). (various references)

Farsi		پنددادن (Advise), متنبه کردن , نصیحت کردن (Advise, Preach), وعظکردن (Preach), اگاه کردن (Acquaint, Inform, Warn). (various references)

Finnish		kehottaa (advise encourage, persuade, prompting, scold, tell, to prompt, urge). (various references)

French		exhorter, sommer, admonester. (various references)

Frisian		oanmoanje (scold). (various references)

German		warnen (alarm, alert, caution, to warn, warn), ermahnen (caution, exhort, urge, warn). (various references)

Greek		νουθετώ (lecture, preach, preachify, sermonize). (various references)

Hebrew		ל� זוף (chide, dress down, flay, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, slate, take to task, upbraid). (various references)

Hungarian		megint (again, to admonish, to haul sy over the coals, to reassert oneself), figyelmeztet (alarm, caution, exhort, forewarn, indicate, raise the alarm, sound the alarm, tip the wink, to admonish, to caution, to exhort, to forewarn, to serve notice, to tip, to tip the wink, to warn, warn). (various references)

Indonesian		menegur (address), memperingatkan (warn). (various references)

Italian		esortare (exhort, urge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		部下�'諭す (admonish an inferior), 諭す (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), �'める　 (to admonish, to remonstrate), �'める (to admonish, to remonstrate), 固く�'める (to admonish sternly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さとす (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), かたくいましめる (to admonish sternly), いましめる (to admonish, to remonstrate). (various references)

Norwegian		påminne, formane (exhort). (various references)

Pig Latin		admonishay

Portuguese		repreender (berate, bounce, carpet, censure, correct, find loopholes, jaw vice, lecturer, lessor, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, take to task, tell off, twit, upbraid, vituperate), exortar (exhort, scold), advertir (advert, advertise, advertize, caution, expostulate, forbid, forewarn, poster, publicize, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, warn), admoestar (caution, jaw, remonstrate, reprehend, scold, sermonize, talk to, warn). (various references)

Romanian		admonesta (reprimand, scold), sfãtui (advise, chat, confer, consult, counsel, deliberate, exhort, recommend, Rede, rule, school, tip), pune în gardã (forewarn, guard), preveni (apprise, apprize, avert, caution, forewarn, give notice, head, help, hold off, warn). (various references)

Russian		увещать, предостерегать (forewarn, previse, warn), делать замечание (observe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		upozoriti (caution, forewarn, warn), ubeđivati, savetovati (advise, confer, consult), opomenuti (warn). (various references)

Spanish		exhortar (exhort, scold), requerir (call for, scold, want), advertir (behold, caution, forewarn, Mark, note, notice, point out, remark, tip off, warn). (various references)

Swedish		tillrättavisa (check, correct, lecture, objurgate, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, talk to). (various references)

Turkish		azarlamak (baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), uyarmak (advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), tembih etmek (caution, exhort, recommend, warn), ihtar etmek (caution, give warning, notify, reprehend, serve notice, warn). (various references)

Ukranian		умовляти (blandish, cajole, expostulate, persuade, ply, reassure, tempt, woo, word), нагадувати (bethink, bring to mind, call to mind, remind, take back), напучувати (edify, exhort, monitor, rant, remonstrate), застерігати (caution, forewarn, premonish, previse, warn), повідомляти (acquaint, advertise, advertize, advise, announce, apprise, apprize, communicate, convey, delate, give, give notice, inform, notice, notify, publicize, report, transmit), попереджати (advertise, advertize, caution, denounce, exhort, notice, tip off, warn), переконувати (argue, assure, bring, certify, convince, expostulate, reason, satisfy, talk over, urge), докоряти (chide, objurgate, pull up, upbraid). (various references)

Welsh		rhybuddio (caution, warn), ceryddu (animadvert, chastise, correct, rebuke). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	admoneo, admonere, commonefaciat, monens, monent, monentes, monentis, moneo, moneret, monita, monuit, praedico, praedico, predico, salomone. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	manian. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Erwtwmen de umaV adelfoi eidenai touV kopiwntaV en umin kai proistamenouV umwn en kuriw kai nouqetountaV umaV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Rogamus autem vos fratres ut noveritis eos qui laborant inter vos et praesunt vobis in Domino et monent vos
Old English	990	West Saxon	Nu, breþer, acsiaðwe eow þæt ge ariað þas þe weorcað swiðe sare be eow, þas þe sind ofer eow on Hælende and maniað eow.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And, britheren, we preien you, that ye knowen hem that trauelen among you, and ben souereyns to you in the Lord, and techen you,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We beseche you brethren that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you and have the oversight of you in the Lorde
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
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Language	1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 12
Bulgarian	Пророчества не презирайте.
Cebuano	Apan mangamuyo kami kaninyo, mga igsoon, nga unta inyong pasidunggan sila nga mga nagapangabudlay diha kaninyo ug nagapangulo kaninyo diha sa Ginoo ug nagatambag kaninyo;
Chinese	弟兄們、我們勸 � 們敬重那在 � 們中 �" 勞苦的人、就是在主裡面治理 � 們、勸 �' � 們的．
Croatian	Molimo vas, braæo: priznajte one koji se trude meðu vama, koji su vam predstojnici u Gospodinu i opominju vas;
Danish	Men vi bede eder, Brødre! at I skønne på dem, som arbejde iblandt eder og ere eders Forstandere i Herren og påminde eder,
Dutch	En wij bidden u, broeders, erkent degenen, die onder u arbeiden, en uw voorstanders zijn in den Heere, en u vermanen;
Finnish	Mutta me pyydämme teitä, veljet, antamaan tunnustuksenne niille, jotka tekevät työtä teidän keskuudessanne ja ovat teidän johtajanne Herrassa ja neuvovat teitä,
French	Nous vous prions, frères, d`avoir de la considération pour ceux qui travaillent parmi vous, qui vous dirigent dans le Seigneur, et qui vous exhortent.
German	Wir bitten aber euch, liebe Brüder, daß ihr erkennet, die an euch arbeiten und euch vorstehen in dem HERRN und euch vermahnen;
Haitian Creole	Frè m' yo, m'ap mande nou pou nou gen anpil respè pou moun k'ap travay nan mitan nou yo, moun Seyè a chwazi pou dirije nou, pou ankouraje nou.
Hungarian	Kérünk továbbá titeket atyámfiai, hogy becsüljétek azokat, a kik fáradoznak közöttetek, és elõljáróitok az Úrban, és intenek titeket;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Saudara-saudara, kami minta dengan sangat supaya kalian menghargai orang-orang yang bekerja di tengah-tengahmu; yaitu mereka yang sudah dipilih oleh Tuhan untuk memimpin dan menasihati kalian.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hai saudara-saudaraku, kami mintalah kamu menghormatkan orang-orang yang berlelah di antara kamu, dan yang mengepalai kamu di dalam Tuhan, dan yang memberi kamu nasehat;
Italian	Vi preghiamo poi, fratelli, di aver riguardo per quelli che faticano tra di voi, che vi sono preposti nel Signore e vi ammoniscono;
Korean	형 � � �"� 아 우 리 가 너 희 에 게 구 하 노 니 너 희 가 운 데 서 수 � 하 � 주 안 에 서 너 희 를 다 스 리 며 권 하 �" 자 �"� 을 너 희 가 알 �
Latvian	Bet mçs jûs lûdzam, brâïi, esiet atzinîgi pret tiem, kas jûsu labâ strâdâ, kas Kunga vârdâ ir jûsu priekðnieki un kas jûs pamâca.
Maori	He mea ia tenei na matou ki a koutou, e oku teina, kia matau ki te hunga e mahi ana i roto i a koutou, e tohutohu ana i a koutou i roto i te Ariki, e whakatupato ana i a koutou;
Modern Greek	Σας παρακαλουμεν δε, αδελφοι, να γνωριζητε τους οσοι κοπιαζουσι μεταξυ σας και ειναι προεστωτες σας εν Κυριω και σας νουθετουσι,
Norwegian	Men vi ber eder, brødre, at I skjønner på dem som arbeider iblandt eder og er eders forstandere i Herren og formaner eder,
Portuguese	Ora, rogamo-vos, irmãos, que reconheçais os que trabalham entre vós, presidem sobre vós no Senhor e vos admoestam;
Rumanian	Vq rugqm, frayilor, sq priviyi bine pe ceice se ostenesc kntre voi, cari vq ckrmuiesc kn Domnul, wi cari vq sfqtuiesc.
Russian	рТПУЙН ЦЕ ЧБУ, �'ТБФЙС, ХЧБЦБФШ ФТХ�"СЭЙИУС Х ЧБУ, Й � ТЕ�"УФПСФЕМЕК ЧБЫЙИ Ч зПУ� П�"Е, Й ЧТБЪХНМСАЭЙИ ЧБУ,
Shuar	Yatsurú, juna seajrume. Atumjai pujuinia Nú shuar Yúsnan takakmainiakui shiir Enentáimtustarum. Jintintramuk chichartamainiakui umirkatarum.
Spanish	Os rogamos, hermanos, que reconozcáis a los que entre vosotros trabajan, que os presiden en el Señor y que os dan instrucción.
Swahili	Ndugu, tunawaombeni muwastahi wale wanaofanya kazi kati yenu, wale wanaowaongoza na kuwafundisheni kuhusu maisha ya Kikristo.
Swedish	Vi bedja eder, käre bröder, att rätt uppskatta de män som arbeta bland eder, och som äro edra föreståndare i Herren och förmana eder.
Thai	พี่น้องทั้งหลาย เราขอวิงวอนท่านให้รู้จักคนที่ทำงานอยู่ในพวกท่าน และปกครองท่านในองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า และตักเตือนท่าน
Ukrainian	Блага�"мо ж, браття, ми вас, шануйте тих, що працюють між вами, і в вас старшинують у �"осподі, і навчають вас вони,
Uma	Ompi' -ompi', kiperapi' bona nibila' -ra to mpokamu bago Pue' hi laintongo' -ni, apa' hira' to jadi' totu'a-ni hi rala Pue' pai' to mpoparesai' -koi.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "admonish": admonished, admonisher, admonishers, admonishes, admonishing, admonishingly, admonishment, admonishments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Admonish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adamovich, addonis, ademonas, adminis, Adminius, admoish, admonishe, Amponsah, ardminish, ardtornish, armoniche, armoniosa, Radonezh. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "admonish" (pronounced admÄ"nish)
4	-Ä" n i sh	astonish.
3	-n i sh	banish, corniche, diminish, finish, garnish, minish, punish, refinish, replenish, vanish, varnish.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-m-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: daimons, domains.
	-2 letters: adonis, amnios, daimon, damson, danios, danish, domain, hansom, hondas, modish, monads, monish, nomads, sandhi.
	-3 letters: adios, amido, amids, amino, amins, amnio, damns, danio, dashi, donas, hands, hinds, honda, maids, mains, manos, mason, minas, minds, misdo, moans, monad, monas, nomad, nomas, ohias.
	-4 letters: ados, aids, aims, ains, amid, amin, amis, ands, anis, dahs, dais, damn, dams, dash, dims, dins, dish, doms, dona, dons, hams, hand, hind, hins, hisn, hods, hons, ions, mads, maid, main, mano, mans, mash, mhos, mids, mina, mind, miso, moan, moas, modi, mods, mons, mosh, naoi, naos, nims, nodi, nods, noma, noms, nosh, ohia, ohms, sadi, said, sain, sand, shad, sham, shim, shin, shmo, shod, sima, sinh, soda, soma.
	-5 letters: ado, ads, aid, aim, ain, ais, ami, and, ani, ash, dah, dam, dim, din, dis, dom, don, dos, had, ham, hao, has, hid, him, hin, his, hod, hon, ids, ins, ion, ism, mad, man, mas, mho, mid, mis, moa, mod, mon, mos, nah, nam, nim, nod, noh, nom, nos, ods, ohm, ohs, oms, ons, sad, sha, sim, sin, sod, som, son.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-m-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: humanoids, rhodamins.
	+2 letters: admonished, admonisher, admonishes, disharmony, harmonised, rhodamines.
	+3 letters: admonishers, admonishing, maidenhoods.
	+4 letters: admonishment, disharmonies, disharmonize, ethionamides, hemodynamics, homesteading, hydromancies, malnourished, smallholding, trichomonads.
	+5 letters: admonishingly, admonishments, commandership, diathermanous, disharmonious, disharmonized, disharmonizes, endotheliomas, hydrodynamics, indomethacins, ombudsmanship, psychodynamic, rhabdomancies, smallholdings, swordsmanship.
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