an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.
a communication, especially from a distance, containing information: Advice from abroad informs us that the government has fallen. Recent diplomatic advices have been ominous.
an official notification, especially one pertaining to a business agreement: an overdue advice.
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Origin of advice
1250–1300; late Middle English advise; replacing Middle English avis (with ad-ad- for a-a-5) <Old French a vis (taken from the phrase ce m'est a vis that is my impression, it seems to me) <Latin ad (see ad-) + vīsus (see visage)
SYNONYMS FOR advice
1 admonition, warning, caution; guidance; urging.
2 intelligence, word.
3 notice, advisory.
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synonym study for advice
1. Advice,counsel,recommendation,suggestion,persuasion,exhortation refer to opinions urged with more or less force as worthy bases for thought, opinion, conduct, or action. Advice is a practical recommendation as to action or conduct: advice about purchasing land.Counsel is weighty and serious advice, given after careful deliberation: counsel about one's career.Recommendation is weaker than advice and suggests an opinion that may or may not be acted upon: Do you think he'll follow my recommendation?Suggestion implies something more tentative than a recommendation: He did not expect his suggestion to be taken seriously.Persuasion suggests a stronger form of advice, urged at some length with appeals to reason, emotion, self-interest, or ideals: His persuasion changed their minds.Exhortation suggests an intensified persuasion or admonition, often in the form of a discourse or address: an impassioned exhortation.
Efforts like these don’t just offer vital advice to future workers—they send a message to my students that they have a chance to fill a role where they have an equal footing from day one.
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When New Jersey lawmakers sought advice about police accountability, one of the power players they turned to was Sean Lavin, a police union leader.
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One reason is that the industry is evolving, with the value of financial advice changing.
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Many of the founders I have spoken to said one of their biggest early challenges was figuring out how to sift through all the advice they receive.
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Who do you turn to now when you have a decision to make, when you have one less person to provide validation or advice?
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As a well-known advocate for Baluch rights in Iran, young Iranians reach out to him for advice.
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Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.
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It was not only the advice that I gave parents about their kids, it was the standard I held for my own.
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His advice, however, sunk deep into my mind, and has often been of singular value to me since.
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His soldiers broke into cheers, but he sternly stopped them, with the advice to wait till the Hartford was sunk.
Dewey and Other Naval Commanders|Edward S. Ellis
Wilson has written to the Sultan a letter full of advice, and he says the Turks will be more powerful than ever.
The Greville Memoirs|Charles C. F. Greville
Yet the "Tigers" purposed to make the place the talk of the juvenile population and they turned to their captain for advice.
A Son of the City|Herman Gastrell Seely
For the moment Russell appears to have yielded easily to this French advice.
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British Dictionary definitions for advice
advice
/ (ədˈvaɪs) /
noun
recommendation as to appropriate choice of action; counsel
(sometimes plural)formal notification of facts, esp when communicated from a distance
Word Origin for advice
C13: avis (later advise), via Old French from a Vulgar Latin phrase based on Latin ad to, according to + vīsum view (hence: according to one's view, opinion)