Advice
[əd'vaɪs]
Definition
(n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
(n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
(n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.
(n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Counsel, suggestion, instruction, recommendation, admonition, warning, caution, exhortation.[2]. Intelligence, information, notice, notification, tidings, word.
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Definition
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Avize′full (Spens.).—The form Adviso advice counsel (Sir T. Browne) and in Caraval of adviso = an advice-boat (Fuller) is obsolete—modern form Aviso.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you receive advice, denotes that you will be enabled to raise your standard of integrity, and strive by honest means to reach independent competency and moral altitude. To dream that you seek legal advice, foretells that there will be some transactions in your affairs which will create doubt of their merits and legality.
Editor: Tod
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The smallest current coin.
Editor: Rebekah
Unserious Contents or Definition
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."
Checker: Neil
Examples
- Then you don't ask my advice,' says Podsnap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had always meant to do something, and Amy's advice was quite unnecessary. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Somewhat to her surprise, Sir Philip followed her advice to the letter, and actually, towards the close of September, arrived at the priory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No one ever needed your advice more than I do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This is my advice. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- An old woman's advice is sometimes worth taking, sir, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His advice, energy, activity, money, credit, all his resources whatsoever, were all made useless. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I want some very sound advice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The advice I give you is, don't you trouble your head about the murder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As the event proved, and as you will soon see, this was the worst advice I could have given. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My advice to you, sir, is to speak the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- With your powerful mind you must feel independent of help, of advice, of society. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then you don't ask my advice,' says Podsnap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had always meant to do something, and Amy's advice was quite unnecessary. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Somewhat to her surprise, Sir Philip followed her advice to the letter, and actually, towards the close of September, arrived at the priory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No one ever needed your advice more than I do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This is my advice. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- An old woman's advice is sometimes worth taking, sir, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His advice, energy, activity, money, credit, all his resources whatsoever, were all made useless. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I want some very sound advice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The advice I give you is, don't you trouble your head about the murder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As the event proved, and as you will soon see, this was the worst advice I could have given. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My advice to you, sir, is to speak the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- With your powerful mind you must feel independent of help, of advice, of society. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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