Meaning: A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions. Synonyms: precaution; safeguard; guard. Context examples: he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution / an insurance policy is a good safeguard / we let our guard down. Hypernyms (precaution is a kind of...):
Nabucco (. [naËbukko] ; short for Nabucodonosor [naËbukoËdÉËnozor] ~ [naËbukodonoËzÉr] , English Nebuchadnezzar) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera.hen Nabucco learns that he has consigned his (true) daughter to death, he is overcome with grief and anger. He tells Abigaille that he is not in fact her father and searches for the document evidencing her true origins as a slave. Abigaille mocks him, produces the document and tears it up.
 Va, pensiero  (. [va penËsjÉro]), also known in English as the  Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves , is a chorus from the third act of the opera Nabucco (1842) by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Temistocle Solera, inspired by Psalm 137.It recollects the story of Jewish exiles in Babylon after the loss of the First Temple in Jerusalem.ork by Philip Gossett on choruses of the 1840s also suggests that recent revisionist approaches to Verdi and the Risorgimento may have gone too far in their thorough dismissal of the political significance of Va, Pensiero. In 2009 Senator Umberto Bossi proposed replacing Italy's national anthem with Va, pensiero.