Usually means: Care taken to avoid danger.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word caution:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. caution: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. caution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caution, caution: Wordnik
  7. caution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caution: Wiktionary
  9. caution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. caution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Caution, caution: Dictionary.com
  13. caution (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. caution: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Caution (Hot Water Music album), Caution (Left Spine Down album), Caution (Mariah Carey album), Caution (The Killers song), Caution (football), Caution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Caution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. caution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. caution: Rhymezone
  19. caution, caution (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. caution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. caution: Free Dictionary
  22. caution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. caution: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. caution: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. caution: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caution: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAUTION: Acronym Finder
  2. caution: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caution: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. caution: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Caution: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See cautionary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
noun:  A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
noun:  Security; guaranty; bail.
noun:  (dated) One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.
noun:  (law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
noun:  (soccer) A yellow card.
verb:  (transitive) To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
verb:  (soccer) To give a yellow card

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