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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
beware
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Beware of the dog! (=a sign warning people that there is a dog inside a place)
▪ There was a sign on the gate saying 'Beware of the dog!'.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ Andy reports that the top of the area above Necrepolis now features some loose rock - so beware.
▪ Like any other group of people, anti-diet professionals are a mixed bunch, so beware.
▪ They have false floors, so beware, it is very dangerous to climb down into them!
▪ So beware at the doctor's.
▪ Some yarns will give a neat sideways band using full needle rib but others look very floppy so beware.
▪ You don't want to lose what you have worked so long to achieve, so beware of hard-sell techniques.
▪ So beware the curved top compacts.
▪ So beware: if we were able to read between the lines that easily, so too can your family and friends!
■ NOUN
buyer
▪ It's definitely a case of buyer beware.
▪ Internet purchase of prescription drugs: buyer beware.
▪ Meanwhile, let the buyer beware.
▪ My final words would be caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
▪ There's a legal term, caveat emptor, which means buyer beware, so when viewing it pays to be suspicious.
▪ So caveat emptor viridis: let the green buyer beware.
▪ Obviously, organic does signify better, or at the least an improvement, but the buyer must beware.
■ VERB
let
▪ Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack, yowling and tooting to himself and let all beware who saw him come.
▪ Meanwhile, let the buyer beware.
▪ My final words would be caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
▪ So caveat emptor viridis: let the green buyer beware.
▪ A useless moment of violence. Let her recall and beware.
warn
▪ Trading Standards Officers in West Sussex warned consumers to beware of buying the second-hand domestic fire extinguishers.
▪ Prominent traffic signs warn you to beware of camels.
▪ Thefts alert: Police are warning householders to beware of sneak thieves after a series of burglaries in Newton Aycliffe.
▪ Fakes a lot HARD-UP shoppers were warned yesterday to beware of cut-price fakes.
▪ Veteran extras warn neophytes to beware the purges.
▪ Thomas Szasz warns to beware of the psychiatrist who analyses jokes instead of laughing at them.
▪ Friends of the Earth is warning Mr Redwood to beware of talk of a jobs bonanza.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Beware of accidentally starting the engine while you are cleaning the blades.
▪ Beware of falling rocks.
▪ Beware of the dog.
▪ Beware. Deep water.
▪ The department warned consumers to beware.
▪ The police warn tourists to beware of pickpockets, especially in crowded places.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also beware of the trick of falling percentages.
▪ At the same time, beware of undermining their power bases by claiming undue credit for yourself.
▪ But less exalted leakers had to beware.
▪ If a mentor is pushing you beyond your limits, if you are feeling more and more exhausted, beware!
▪ Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack, yowling and tooting to himself and let all beware who saw him come.
▪ Trading Standards Officers in West Sussex warned consumers to beware of buying the second-hand domestic fire extinguishers.
▪ Was he telling her to beware of his wife?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beware

Beware \Be*ware"\ (b[-e]*w[^a]r"), v. t. To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. [Obs.] ``Priest, beware your beard.''
--Shak.

To wish them beware the son.
--Milton.

Beware

Beware \Be*ware"\, v. i. [Be, imperative of verb to be + ware. See Ware, Wary.]

  1. To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.

    Beware of all, but most beware of man !
    --Pope.

    Beware the awful avalanche.
    --Longfellow.

  2. To have a special regard; to heed. [Obs.]

    Behold, I send an Angel before thee. . . . Beware of him, and obey his voice.
    --Ex. xxiii. 20, 21.

    Note: This word is a compound from be and the Old English ware, now wary, which is an adjective. ``Be ye war of false prophetis.''
    --Wyclif, Matt. vii. 15. It is used commonly in the imperative and infinitive modes, and with such auxiliaries (shall, should, must, etc.) as go with the infinitive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beware

c.1200, probably from a conflation of be ware (though the compound bewarian "defend" existed in Old English). See ware (v.).

Wiktionary
beware

vb. (context defective ambitransitive English) To use caution, pay attention (to) (''if intransitive, construed with '''of''''').

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WordNet
beware

v. be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to; "Beware of telephone salesmen" [syn: mind]

Wikipedia
Beware (EP)

Beware was the fifth release from the Lodi, New Jersey horror punk band The Misfits. Since it was originally intended to be available for the group's 1979 UK tour, it combined two earlier, out of print releases, with the substitution of one new track.

Beware (Big Pun song)

"Beware" is a song by American rapper Big Pun, taken from his 1998 Grammy-nominated debut album Capital Punishment. The song samples the line "I gave you fair warning... beware...beware..." which was used in Mobb Deep's unreleased track "Shook Ones Part 1" and also on their The Infamous album track "Party Over". The song was also used in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, on the fictitious East Coast rap station "The Liberty Jam".

Beware (film)

Beware ( 1946) is an American race film directed by Bud Pollard, and released by Astor Pictures. The film is also known as Beware! (American poster title).

Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere)

Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) is a studio album by Afrika Bambaataa, released in 1986 by Tommy Boy Records.

Beware (album)

Beware is a studio album by singer-songwriter Will Oldham, released on March 17, 2009, on Drag City. The album is Oldham's seventh under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Beware was recorded in October 2008 at Engine Studios in Chicago, IL. This album showcased a more upbeat and less melancholic side to Bonnie Prince Billy's music, with the artist attributing this to 'having found love' in a monologue to an audience on the album's subsequent tour. It was engineered by Neil Strauch and Will's backing band included Josh Abrams of Town & Country, Jennifer Hutt, Emmett Kelly of the Cairo Gang band, and Michael Zerang of Peter Brötzmann's and Ken Vandermark's jazz- combos. Guest artists included Leroy Bach (ex- Wilco), Jon Langford (of the Mekons, Waco Brothers), Greg Leisz, Rob Mazurek (of Chicago Underground Duo, Isotope 217), Nicole Mitchell, Azita Youssefi and others.

Beware

Beware may refer to:

  • Beware (album), a 2009 album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
  • Beware! (Barry White album)
  • Beware (EP), a 1980 EP by the Misfits
  • Beware (film), a 1946 American film directed by Bud Pollard
  • "Beware" (Big Sean song), 2013
  • "Beware" (Big Pun song), 1998
  • "Beware'", a 2006 song by Deftones from the album Saturday Night Wrist
  • "Beware", a 2008 song by Sugababes from the album Catfights and Spotlights
  • "Beware", a 2011 song by Death Grips from the mixtape Exmilitary
Beware (Big Sean song)

"Beware" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Big Sean taken from his second studio album Hall of Fame (2013). "Beware" was released on June 25, 2013, as the album's third single, through GOOD and Def Jam. The song was written by Sean Anderson, Dwayne Carter, Dwane Weir II, and Alexander Izquierdo, while production was handled by frequent collaborator Key Wane and Mike Dean and features guest appearances from rapper Lil Wayne and singer Jhené Aiko.

Musically "Beware" is a hip hop song, backed by "poppy" and "head-bobbing" production, with lyrics that revolve around themes of infidelty and breaking up. Upon release "Beware" was met with generally positive reviews from music critics; who praised the song's musical direction and the inclusion of Jhene Aiko. Commercially the song fared well reaching the top forty of US Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten of the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, since its release the song has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

An accompanying music video was directed by Matthew Williams and premiered on August 16, 2013, on Vevo, the video was later named one of "The 15 Best Hip-Hop Videos Of The Summer" by XXL. To further promote the song Sean performed at live on various inclusion including Jimmy Kimmel Live and the Hustle After Party.

Usage examples of "beware".

Whilst the mechanist abridges, and the political economist combines labour, let them beware that their speculations, for want of correspondence with those first principles which belong to the imagination, do not tend, as they have in modern England, to exasperate at once the extremes of luxury and want.

I must confess she did not seem at all sorry to have me taken off her hands, for after cautioning me to beware of a number of things I did not so much as know by name, she shot off like a respectable old aerolite with a black trail streaming out behind.

Especially he walked the hospitals with much attention and interest, ever warned by Cupples to beware lest he should come to regard a man as a physical machine, and so grow a mere doctoring machine himself.

She drifted off muttering something about beware the frumious Bandersnatch and the Jubjub bird and the Jabberwock.

I interrupted her by praising her modesty, and telling her that she would have done quite right to beware of me, if my sense of duty had not been stronger than any voluptuous desires inspired by her charms.

And therewithall shee willed secretly the residue to depart : who being gone she sayd, My most deare Cousin Lucius, I do sweare by the goddesse Diana, that I doe greatly tender your safety, and am as carefull for you as if you were myne owne naturall childe, beware I say, beware of the evil arts and wicked allurements of that Pamphiles who is the wife of Milo, whom you call your Host, for she is accounted the most chief and principall Magitian and Enchantresse living, who by breathing out certain words and charmes over bowes, stones and other frivolous things, can throw down all the powers of the heavens into the deep bottome of hell, and reduce all the whole world againe to the old Chaos.

Drink of faith in the brains a full draught Before the oration: beware Lest rhetoric moonily waft Whither horrid activities snare.

And natheless yet will I it express, To that intent men may beware thereby, And for none other cause truely.

Terren luxury and against all laws, and the discipline Julia, and the utility of the publike weale, in transforming my divine beauty into serpents, fire, savage beasts, birds, and into Bulles : howbeit remembring my modesty, and that I have nourished thee with mine owne proper hands, I will doe and accomplish all thy desire, so that thou canst beware of spitefull and envious persons.

But if I only seem to be dead, or am separated somehow from the sigil and it still glows, then beware.

Beware from ire that in thy bosom sleeps, Ware from the serpent, that so slily creeps Under the grass, and stingeth subtilly.

Clearly, she was just beginning to scratch the surface of Suba, a country where one had to beware of water, the natural blessing and plaything of mankind.

When I asked about moral issues, they laughed at me, called me stuffy and old-fashioned, minded me to beware of hypocrisy and suggested that I should talk to the reverend Massey, who I already knew had also come to New Chatterford.

I command thee not to prophane or despise the sacrifice in any wise, for the great Priest shall carry this day following in procession by my exhortation, a Garland of Roses, next the timbrell of his right hand : follow thou my procession amongst the people, and when thou commest to the Priest make as though thou wouldest kisse his hand, but snatch at the Roses, whereby I will put away the skin and shape of an Asse, which kind of beast I have long time abhorred and despised, but above all things beware thou doubt not nor feare any of those things, as hard and difficill to bee brought to passe, for in the same houre that I am come to thee, I have commanded the Priest by a vision what he shall doe, and all the people by my commandement shall be compelled to give thee place and say nothing !

Our conversation then took a tender turn, and we were about to seal our mutual ardours without troubling about the aroph, when prudence bade us beware.