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alert

/əˈlɝt/

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What does alert mean?

adjective

  1. Attentive; awake; on guard.

noun

  1. An alarm.
  2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
More meanings (7)

noun

  1. A state of readiness for potential combat.
  2. Synonym of bell (“bell character”).

verb

  1. To give warning to.

proper noun

  1. A community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada; the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.
  2. An alternative name for Alharod, a village in Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
  3. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Decatur County, Indiana, United States.

adjective

  1. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

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IPA pronunciation

/əˈlɝt/

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My horse was not above medium size, but he was alert, slender-limbed, muscled with watchsprings, and just a greyhound to go.
Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtProject Gutenberg ebook #86
I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.
United States. PresidentsUnited States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. BushProject Gutenberg ebook #925
More book examples (3)
"O yes, sir," said he, "those old times of the Pilgrim and Alert and California, that we read about, are gone by."
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
There remains the entrance into the cell, a puzzle that has kept me on the alert for a quarter of a century.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
The ship was shaken by heavy bumps, and we were on the alert to see that no dogs had fallen into cracks.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199