Advice
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful. uncountable
"She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do."
- 2 a proposal for an appropriate course of action wordnet
- 3 Deliberate consideration; knowledge. obsolete, uncountable
"How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her?"
- 4 Information or news given; intelligence archaic, countable, uncountable
"late advices from France"
- 5 In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document. countable
"An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank."
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- 6 In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange uncountable
"a letter of advice"
- 7 A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions countable
"An advice issued by a Monitoring Committee could be applicable in a Dutch court"
- 8 Counseling to perform a specific legal act. uncountable
"An honest oath taken under advice of counsel, therefore, is not perjury"
- 9 Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. uncountable
- 10 In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached. countable
- 1 Misspelling of advise. alt-of, misspelling
Example
More examples"You should have acted on her advice."
Etymology
From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, rebracketed from the phrase ce m'est a vis (“I think”, “it seems to me”, literally “it is to my view”), where vis is from Latin vīsus (“vision, sight”). The unhistoric -d- was introduced during the 15th century due to influence from advise and ad-, see advance. Doublet of aviso. See vision, and compare avise, advise. Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).