advice
Meanings
Plural: advices
Noun
- a proposal for an appropriate course of action
- An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
- Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
- Information or news given; intelligence
- In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
- In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange
- A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions
- Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
- Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
- In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
Verb
- Misspelling of advise.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and compare avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. Doublet of aviso.
Mostly displaced native Old English rǣd (see modern rede).
Synonyms
admonition, advice, counsel, exhortation, hint, information, notice, recommendation, rede, suggestion, tip
Scrabble Score: 12
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