Definition of advice Advice

/ædvajˈs/ - [atdvays] - ad•vice

We found 19 definitions of advice from 9 different sources.

What does advice mean?

Noun Plural: advice
advice - a proposal for an appropriate course of action
		proposal the act of making a proposal; "they listened to her proposal"
		recommendation any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
		indication something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary; "there were indications that it was time to leave"

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advice (Noun)
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
advice (Noun)
Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
advice (Noun)
Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.
advice (Noun)
Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
advice (Noun)
In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.

advice (n.)
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
advice (n.)
Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
advice (n.)
Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.
advice (n.)
Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

advice
Official notice, opinion, counsel or recommendation that is optional or at the receiver's discretion.

advice
ad-vīs′, n. counsel: intelligence (usually in pl.): formal official intelligence about anything: specially skilled opinion, as of a physician or lawyer.—n. Advice′-boat, a swift vessel employed in conveying despatches.—adjs. Advice′ful, Avize′full (Spens.).—The form Adviso, advice, counsel (Sir T. Browne), and in Caraval of adviso = an advice-boat (Fuller), is obsolete—modern form Aviso. [O. Fr. advis (Fr. avis)—L. ad visum, according to what is seen or seems best.]

advice
A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous as the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than receive." =GOOD ADVICE= Something old men give young men when they can no longer give them a bad example.

advice
Give neither advice nor salt until you are asked for it.
advice
What every one asks, what every one gives, but what very few take--advice.
advice
In vain he craves advice who will not follow it.
advice
Advice comes too late when a thing is done.

constitutional
In constitutional law, Advice is formal, usually binding instruction given by a constitutional officer of state to another. Heads of state in particular act on the basis of Advice issued by governments and prime ministers. For example, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom formally appoints Ministers of the Crown on the advice of the British Prime Minister.