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/ædvˈaɪs/ /ədvˈaɪs/ Listen

noun

Advice n.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. "We may give advice, but we can not give conduct."

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. (Obs.) "How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her?"

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. Note: 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.

(Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat.

To take advice.

(a)

To accept advice.

(b)

To consult with another or others.

Synonyms: Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... with two quotations. The first is part of Sir Digby Wyatt's advice in a Cambridge Lecture. "You can never hope (he says) to have the means of supplying yourself with what is beautiful unless you take pains to add to the production of that beauty. The colour which the decorative painter" (and the embroiderer also) "may cast around you is neither more nor less than ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

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— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... to work on his frogs, his infusoria, and his chemical experiments, and was for ever busy with them. Arkady, on the contrary, thought it his duty, if not to help his father, at least to make a show of being ready to help him. He gave him a patient hearing, and once offered him some advice, not with any idea of its being acted upon, but to show his interest. Farming details did not arouse any aversion in him; he used even to dream with pleasure of work on the land, but at this time his brain ...

— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... the point. Francois chimed in with the proposal at once; while Lucien, more cautious, did not exactly oppose, but rather offered the reasons that were against it, and pointed out the perils of the undertaking. Norman, of course, was appealed to—all of them looking to him as one whose advice, upon that question at least, was more valuable than ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

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