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alert

Syllables: a·lertUK/əˈlɜːt//əˈlɝt/

alert adjective: attentive; awake; on guard.

Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

  1. Attentive; awake; on guard.
    Synonyms:
    wakeful
  2. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
    • I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself1712 June 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 408; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...

Noun

alert (plural alerts)

  1. An alarm.
  2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
  3. A state of readiness for potential combat.
    • an airborne alert; ground alert
  4. Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
    Synonyms:
    bell

Verb

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)

  1. To give warning to.

Proper noun capitalized: Alert

Alert

  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.

alert meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

alert in Hindi

attentive
सतर्क satark, सजग sajag
an alarm
चेतावनी cetāvnī
a notification
चेतावनी cetāvnī
to give warning to
चेतावनी cetāvnī

alert in Tamil

சாக்கிரதையான, எச்சரிக்கையான, விழிப்பான, விழிப்பாய் இருக்கும், சுறுசுறுப்பான, விழிப்பூட்டல்

alert in Marathi

alert, vigilant, wakeful, watchful
जागरूक jāgrūk
alert, careful
दक्ष dakṣa

alert in Urdu

attentive
سترک satark
More languagesFewer languages
alert in Bengali
সতর্ক śotork
alert in Telugu
అప్రమత్తం
alert in Malayalam
ഉഷാർ uṣāṟ, ജാഗ്രത jāgrata
alert in Kannada
ಎಚ್ಚರಿಕೆ, ಜಾಗರೂಕತೆ, ಹುಷಾರಿ, ಎಚ್ಚರ
alert in Punjabi
ਖ਼ਬਰਦਾਰ xabardār
alert in Gujarati
સાવધાન sāvdhān
alert in Odia
ଆଲର୍ଟ
alert in Sanskrit
सतर्क satarka
alert in Nepali
सतर्कता, सचेत गराउनुहोस्, सचेत गराउनु
alert in Arabic
يَقِظ yaqiẓ
alert in Indonesian
pemberitahuan, lansiran

Examples of alert in a sentence

  • The Tristate is on alert after a rash of home burglaries.
  • Wild animals have to be constantly on the alert for predators.
  • Spoiler alert: The main character, Mark, succumbs to an illness at the end.

All 40 example sentences with alert

Synonyms of alert

Forms of alert

Adjective
comparativemore alert
superlativemost alert
Noun
pluralalerts
Verb
third-person singular presentalerts
present participlealerting
past participlealerted
pastalerted

Plural of alert: alerts

Origin of alert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adjective). Compare French alerter.

After HMS Alert

Words formed from alert

Phrases with alert

Words that rhyme with alert

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Questions about alert

What does alert mean?
Alert means attentive; awake; on guard.
What is alert in Hindi?
Alert in Hindi is सतर्क (satark), सजग (sajag), चेतावनी (cetāvnī). See Alert meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is alert?
Alert can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce alert?
Alert is pronounced /əˈlɜːt/ (UK).

Words near alert in the dictionary

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  2. alerce
  3. alerces
  4. alerion
  5. alerions
  6. alert
  7. alert and oriented
  8. alert and oriented assessment
  9. alert and oriented x1
  10. alert and oriented x2
  11. alert and oriented x3

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: alert (page history and authors); Alert (page history and authors); alert (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); जागरूक (Marathi) (page history and authors); alert (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ഉഷാർ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); alert (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖ਼ਬਰਦਾਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સાવધાન (Gujarati) (page history and authors); alert (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); alert (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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