Admonishment

Definition: Admonishment

Admonishment

Noun

1. A firm rebuke.

Date "admonishment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Etymology: Admonishment \Ad*mon"ish*ment\ (-ment), noun. [Compare to Old French amonestement, admonestement.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Admonishment

Synonyms: admonition (n), monition (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	The second coming of Christ is now! : a contemporarily inspired admonishment from God which gives a last day forewarning of the second and soon Advent of Christ (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Sudan	Enforcement of public order generally took the form of verbal admonishment by security forces. (references)
	Sudan	For example, in 2000 dress code enforcement was relaxed and, when it occurred, generally consisted of verbal admonishment by security forces. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Admonishment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Admonishment" is used about 9 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
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "admonishment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paralajmërim (admonition, caution, exhortation, forerunner, notice, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, tip off, warning). (various references)

Arabic		‏النصح. (various references)

Bulgarian		съвет (admonition, advice, board, council, counsel, exhortation, monition, sanhedrim, suggestion, synod). (various references)

Chinese		规劝. (various references)

French		conseil (advice, adviser, piece of advice). (various references)

German		Verwarnung (caution, warning). (various references)

Greek		νουθεσία (admonition, lecture, sermon). (various references)

Hungarian		figyelmeztetés (admonition, caution, caveat, cue, exhortation, expostulation, notice, notification, reminder, remonstrance, tip off, tip-off, warning). (various references)

Italian		avvertimento (caution, monition, short prefatory note, warning), ammonimento (admonition, caveat, exhortation, warning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"誡 (warning), 教誨 (exhortation, preaching), 教�' (exhortation, preaching). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうかい (association, boundary, church, exhortation, feelings, heart, organization, preaching, society), く�"かい (admonition, explanation, interpretation, lesson or a phrase that teaches you not to do something, warning). (various references)

Pig Latin		admonishmentay

Portuguese		aviso (admonition, advice, alarm, alert, announcement, annunciation, aviso, beacon, buoy, caution, circular, communication, hint, intimation, memo, monition, notice, notification, premonitive symptoms, signal, sloop, threat, warning), advertência (admonition, advertence, monition, monitory, observation, reminder, remonstrance, reprimand, warning), admonição (admonition, monition), admoestação (admonition, exhortation, exposure, monitory, remonstrance, reprimand, sermon, slur, warning), conselho (admonition, advice, board, conclave, congregation, Council, counsel, district, hint, quakers' meeting, Rede, tip, township). (various references)

Romanian		avertisment (caution, caveat, monition, notice, premonition, warning), prevenire (caveat, monition, premonition, warning), dojanã (lash, lecture, lesson, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, set down, snub, taunt, twit), îndemn (impulse, incentive, inducement, urge). (various references)

Russian		предостережение (admonition, ahem, caution, caveat, monition, premonition, warning). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		savet (admonition, advice, council, junta, monition, pointer, rede, steer, tip off), opomena (monition, reminder, remonstrance, summons, warning), napomena (footnote, reference, remark). (various references)

Spanish		amonestación (admonition, caution, expostulation, reprimand, warning). (various references)

Ukranian		настанова, напучення (edification, precept), застереження (admonition, caution, caveat, clause, condition, document, lesson, notification, provision, qualification, reservation, restriction, salvo, warning), попередження (admonition, caution, caveat, notice, notification, prediction, premonition, warning, wire). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự quở mắng (admonition), sự la rầy sự răn bảo lời khuyên răn (admonition), sự khiển trách (admonition, animadversion, blame, dispraise, rebuke, reprehension, rowing), lời nhắc nhở (admonition), lời khuyên nhủ (admonition), lời cảnh cáo sự nhắc nhở (admonition), lời động viên sự cảnh cáo (admonition). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "admonishment": admonishments. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "admonishment" (pronounced admÄ"nishment)
4	-m e n t	Ament, comment, compliment, disfigurement, document, foment.
3	-e n t	content, portent, reorient.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-m-m-n-n-o-s-t"
	-3 letters: ammonites, anthemion, antinodes, dominants, dominates, methadons, methodism, midmonths, misatoned, nominated, nominates, seminomad.
	-4 letters: adhesion, admonish, amidones, ammonite, amniotes, anointed, antinode, astonied, atomised, daimones, demonian, demonism, demonist, dominant, dominate, enations, ethmoids, hammiest, handiest, handsome, headmost, hedonism, hedonist, hematins, hematoid, hindmost, immanent, immodest, manihots, mannites, mediants, mentions, methadon, midmonth, misatone, mismated, misnamed, monadism, monished, montanes, nomadism, nominate, saintdom, sedation, shammied, sonatine.
	-5 letters: amidone, ammines, amnions, amniote, amosite, anoints, anomies, anthems, anthoid, atheism, atomies, atomise, atomism, atonies, daemons, daimons, dentins, destain, detains, diastem, diatoms, dimmest, distome, domains, domines, donates, donnish, emodins, enation, endmost, etamins, ethions, ethmoid, haemins, haemoid, handset, hematin, hetmans, histone, hoidens, hoisted, homiest, homines, inanest, indents, inmates, instead, intends, intoned, intones, iodates, maidens, maihems, manihot, manitos, mannish, mannite, mannose, mansion, mantids, masoned, mastoid, medians, mediant, medinas, mention, mestino, methods, midmost, mindset, misdate, misdone, mismade, mismate, misname, mistend, modiste, moisten, momenta, moments, monades, montane, nations, nonmeat, onanism, onanist, sainted, sandmen, semimat, sentimo, shammed, sheitan, shimmed, shinned, sideman, stained, stanine, sthenia, tameins, tammies, tandems, tannish, tendons, tension, thinned, toadies, toadish, tommies, tonnish.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-m-m-n-n-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: admonishments.
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