admonish
to warn someone
TRANSLATION
admonish = ermahnen, warnen, abmahnen --- How important is this English word? admonish: 1,220,000 Google Hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
“The leaders of other (religious) faiths might also be well-advised to ADMONISH their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.”
(Interview with German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, www.spiegel.de/international)
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Efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor once ADMONISHED employees to do just their narrowly defined jobs and not to think, because other people were paid to do that.
(www.allbusiness.com)
(Interview with German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, www.spiegel.de/international)
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Efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor once ADMONISHED employees to do just their narrowly defined jobs and not to think, because other people were paid to do that.
(www.allbusiness.com)
Did you
know?
admonish
verb
to express warning or disapproval to someone, especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous (sorgsam) manner.
(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)
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ETYMOLOGY
Around 1325 from the Latin admonere (ad = to and monere = advise, warn) and Old French amonester meaning to advise or remind.
The word monitor, which also derives from the Latin admonere, is someone who reminds, admonishes and checks, and can be traced back to the 1500s where it was used (and is still used today) to describe a senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order.
(Adapted from The Online Etymology Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
advise, council, forewarn, reprimand, reprove, exhort
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“After firing the group head, senior management admonished the department members to settle their differences and work as a team.”
verb
to express warning or disapproval to someone, especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous (sorgsam) manner.
(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)
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ETYMOLOGY
Around 1325 from the Latin admonere (ad = to and monere = advise, warn) and Old French amonester meaning to advise or remind.
The word monitor, which also derives from the Latin admonere, is someone who reminds, admonishes and checks, and can be traced back to the 1500s where it was used (and is still used today) to describe a senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order.
(Adapted from The Online Etymology Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
advise, council, forewarn, reprimand, reprove, exhort
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“After firing the group head, senior management admonished the department members to settle their differences and work as a team.”
