alert

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

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: a‧lert

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).^[1]

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

2. Attentive; awake; on guard.

   Synonym: wakeful

3. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
   • 1712 June 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 408; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     I saw an alert 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 (plural alerts)

1. An alarm.
2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
3. (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.

   an airborne alert; ground alert

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

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adjective). Compare French alerter.^[2]

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

1. To give warning to.

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

Borrowed from French alerte.

• IPA^(key): /aːˈlɛrt/

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• Hyphenation: alert
• Rhymes: -ɛrt

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)

1. alert

• alertheid

• Negerhollands: allert

• later, ratel

Borrowed from French alerte.

• IPA^(key): [aˈlɛʁt]

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alert (strong nominative masculine singular alerter, comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)

1. alert

• “alert” in Duden online
• “alert”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Borrowed from French alerte or English alert, from Italian all'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

   antyterrorystyczny alert ― a terrorist alert

2. alert (sound used to alarm people)

   Synonym: alarm

3. alert (state of being alerted)

   pomarańczowy alert ― orange alert

   czerwony alert ― red alert

   alert ekologiczny ― an ecological alert

   ogłaszać/ogłosić alert ― to declare alert

   alert obowiązuje ― alert holds form/applies to

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

   Synonym: powiadomienie

• “alert”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “alert”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French alerte.

alert m or n (feminine singular alertă, masculine plural alerți, feminine/neuter plural alerte)

1. wide-awake

Borrowed from French alerte, from Italian all'erta (“on guard”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈlæʈ/
• Rhymes: -æʈː

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

1. alert

• “alert”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• artel, later, letar, realt