monitor

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who supervises (an examination)
  2. noun someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
  3. noun an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

Etymology

From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

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