Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem; counsel.
- n. Information communicated; news. Often used in the plural: advices from an ambassador.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An opinion recommended, or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel; suggestion.
- n. Deliberate consideration; reflection; cogitation.
- n. Information; notice; intelligence; a communication, especially from a distance, containing information: as, to receive advice of a coming storm, or advices from abroad.
- n. Specifically In com., a notification by one person to another in respect to a business transaction in which they are mutually engaged, as information given by one party to another, by letter, as to the bills or drafts drawn upon him; formal official notice.
Wiktionary
- n. An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
- n. obsolete Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
- n. Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.
- n. law Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
- n. computing, programming In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
- n. obsolete Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
- n. Information or notice given; intelligence; ; -- commonly in the plural.
- n. (Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a proposal for an appropriate course of action
Etymologies
- From Old French avis, from the Old French phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visum, past participle of videre ("to see"). See vision, and confer avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English avis, advice, from Old French avis, from (ester) a vis, to seem : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + vis, seen (from Latin vīsum, what seems (good), from neuter past participle of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Your posts will be excellent if they contain advice from the trenches.”
How to Generate Great Content Week After Week | Write to Done
“Their main advice is to treat boys like any friend and not as a different species — or one option is to ignore them until you (and them) are 19.”
Boys Get Dangerous, Girls Daring to Reclaim Childhood | Impact Lab
“My main advice is to think about the types of things you like to cook.”
“If the advice is always bad then why wouldn't malpractice lawsuits take care of the problem?”
Online Trade Barriers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But the advice is as good as ever (and developed at length it in later chapters, which deal with topics such as how to understand what a book is “about”).”
“Much of this advice is available in Weil's previous works as well as on his Web site. ”
“Every time I hear the party faithful lamenting third parties my advice is the same.”
Eugene Robinson gets the name of the site right. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“In advisory accounts, the advice is the primary service being offered.”
“If you are collecting Dahlonega quarter eagles by date or if you are a type collector looking for a single very high grade piece, my advice is to be aggressive on the very rare occasions that a coin like this 1841-D become available.”
Analysis of a Mint State 1841-D Quarter Eagle by Doug Winter : Coin Collecting News
“The real target for their advice is the Congress, which in the end has the final power to adjust the amount of money being spent by the nation on Earth Science.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘advice’.
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
torturous, wreathe, tortuous, wreath, titivate, titillate, stationary, storey, septic, principal, principle, story and 134 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Ayumi G3
Ability, absorb, accuse, act, active, actual, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, ancient, approach and 128 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Word List Level RED 1-40
Ability, absorb, accuse, act, active, actual, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, ancient, approach and 28 more...
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Columns
columns, column, doric, ionic, newspaper, advice, sports, feature, cortical, vertebral, ammunition, tuscan and 11 more...
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Word List - Level Red 1-40
Ability, absorb, accuse, act, active, actual, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, ancient, approach and 28 more...
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Grade 3
Ability, absorb, ability, accuse, act, active, actual, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, ancient and 26 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for advice.
ruzuzu "n. Information; notice; intelligence; a communication, especially from a distance, containing information: as, to receive advice of a coming storm, or advices from abroad." --CD&C
No wonder they put advice columns in newspapers.
Apr 18, 2012
bilby It's fake. It was to illustrate a point about men being bad listeners. Hurr, hurr. Aug 1, 2009
PossibleUnderscore I can't believe that! If it's not fake, I'd like to know what happened to Miriam afterwards. :) Aug 1, 2009
ç�lä±é¯s or this Aug 1, 2009
bilby Like this. Aug 1, 2009
qroqqa I'd never seen 'advice' used as a count noun before, but came across it twice yesterday. It's so used in legal circles, e.g.
undertaking legal research, drafting advices, pleadings and skeleton arguments
Barristers' advices, opinions and professional correspondence are generally confidential and may attract legal professional privilege Aug 12, 2008
Prolagus Plural of advouse. Jun 26, 2008
jeen0809 My teacher helps me by giving advise when I have some problems. Mar 22, 2007