advice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.

   She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do.

2. 2
   noun

   Deliberate consideration; knowledge.

   How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her?

3. 3
   noun

   Information or news given; intelligence.

   late advices from France

4. 4
   noun

   In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.

   An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.

5. 5
   noun

   In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange.

   a letter of advice

6. 6
   noun

   A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions.

   An advice issued by a Monitoring Committee could be applicable in a Dutch court

7. 7
   noun

   Counseling to perform a specific legal act.

   An honest oath taken under advice of counsel, therefore, is not perjury

8. 8
   noun

   a proposal for an appropriate course of action

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Latin vīsus Old French vis Old French avisbor. Middle English avys English advice 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…