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say it: WAWR-ning
warning is a noun and adjective meaning "a message informing of danger". It is pronounced /ˈwɔɹnɪŋ/ — WAWR-ning. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a message informing of danger
“a warning that still more bombs could explode”
cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
“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”
notification of something, usually in advance
“they gave little warning of their arrival”
“she had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for warning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.