• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/əˈlɜːt/
• (General American)enPR:ə-lûrtʹ,IPA^(key):/əˈlɝt/

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• Rhymes:-ɜː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation:a‧lert

FromFrenchalerte(“alert”), from the phraseà l’erte(“on the watch”), fromItalianall'erta(“to the height”), fromerta(“lookout, tower”).^[1]

alert (comparativemorealert,superlativemostalert)

2. Attentive;awake; on guard.
3. (obsolete)brisk; nimble; moving withcelerity.
   • 1712 June 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison;Richard Steeleet al.], “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712”, inThe Spectator, number408; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC:

     I saw analert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself

     The spelling has been modernized.

alert (pluralalerts)

1. Analarm.
2. Anotification of higher importance than anadvisory.
3. (military) A state ofreadiness for potentialcombat.

   an airbornealert; groundalert

4. (computing)Synonym ofbell(“bell character”).

Formed withinEnglish byconversion, fromalert(adj). CompareFrenchalerter.^[2]

alert (third-person singular simple presentalerts,present participlealerting,simple past and past participlealerted)

1. To givewarning to.

• alter,alter-,altre,artel,later,ratel,taler,telar

Borrowed fromFrenchalerte.

• IPA^(key):/aːˈlɛrt/

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• Hyphenation:alert
• Rhymes:-ɛrt

alert (comparativealerter,superlativealertst)

1. alert

• alertheid

• Negerhollands:allert

• later,ratel

Borrowed fromFrenchalerte.

• IPA^(key):[aˈlɛʁt]

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alert (strong nominative masculine singularalerter,comparativealerter,superlativeamalertesten)

1. alert

• “alert” inDuden online
• “alert” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed fromFrenchalerte orEnglishalert, fromItalianall'erta.^[1][2] First attested in the second half of the 20th century.^[2]

• IPA^(key):/ˈa.lɛrt/

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• Rhymes:-alɛrt
• Syllabification:a‧lert

alert m inan

1. alert(device used to alarm people)

   Synonym:alarm

   antyterrorystycznyalert ―a terroristalert

2. alert(sound used to alarm people)

   Synonym:alarm

3. alert(state of being alerted)

   pomarańczowyalert ―orangealert

   czerwonyalert ―redalert

   alert ekologiczny ―an ecologicalalert

   ogłaszać/ogłosićalert ―to declarealert

   alert obowiązuje ―alert holds form/applies to

4. (military)alert(state of readiness for potential combat)
5. (technology)alert

   Synonym:powiadomienie

• alert inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alert in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed fromFrenchalerte.

alert m orn (feminine singularalertă,masculine pluralalerți,feminine and neuter pluralalerte)

1. wide-awake

Borrowed fromFrenchalerte, fromItalianall'erta(“on guard”).

• IPA^(key):/aˈlæʈ/
• Rhymes:-æʈː

alert (comparativealertare,superlativealertast)

1. alert

• alert inSvenska Akademiens ordböcker

• artel,later,letar,realt