advice
Pronunciation: /ədˈvaɪs/
The English word “advice” has 9 meanings listed here.
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.
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…
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