WARNER

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• WARNER (noun)
  The noun WARNER has 2 senses:

1. United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)

2. someone who gives a warning to others

  Familiarity information: WARNER used as a noun is rare.

• WARNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Dudley Warner; Warner

Instance hypernyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who gives a warning to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("warner" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Derivation:

warn (notify, usually in advance)

warn (notify of danger, potential harm, or risk)

 Context examples 

“Excellent, Warner!” cried Holmes, springing to his feet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All I can do is to watch the house and leave my agent, Warner, on guard at the gates.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was my system which enabled me to find John Warner, late gardener of High Gable, sacked in a moment of temper by his imperious employer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The gossip among the servants is that their master is terribly afraid of something. ‘Sold his soul to the devil in exchange for money,’ says Warner, ‘and expects his creditor to come up and claim his own.’ Where they came from, or who they are, nobody has an idea.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)