caution – English noun declension

English noun forms of caution

Noun: caution
Singularcaution
Pluralcautions

Sample Sentences

  • take caution
  • have caution
  • exercise great caution
  • utmost caution is required when travelling in this dangerous neighbourhood
  • act with caution
  • proceed without due caution
  • sound a note of caution
  • In way of caution I must tell you. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
  • [...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution. [1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railways and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:]
  • The guideline expressed caution against excessive radiographic imaging.
  • The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be vigorously prosecuted. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
  • Oh, that boy, he's a caution! He does make me laugh.
  • ‘You are a caution,’ she said, when she came out. ‘I don't understand you.’ [1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 58, in Of Human Bondage:]

Etymology

Recorded since 1297 as Middle English caucioun (“bail, guarantee, pledge”), from Old French caution (“security, surety”), itself from Latin cautiō, from cautus, past participle of caveō, cavēre (“be on one's guard”). See: Latin Nouns 'cautiō'.