advice

Meanings

Noun

• 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

Related

Similar words

• counsel, suggestion, recommendation, rede, admonition, exhortation, information, tip, notice

Origin

• 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. See vision, and confer avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c. aviso.
• Displaced native Old English rǣd.