advice
An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
Example
“She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do.”
Other meanings
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.”
In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange.
Related words
- advice of delivery
- adviceless
- counteradvice
- misadvice
- advice and consent
- advice animal
- advice boat
- advice column
- advice columnist
- adviceful
- avizefull
- adviceline
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "vīsus#Noun" (vision, sight).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “advice” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.