advice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French avis, from the phrase ce m'est a vis ("in my view"), where vis is from Latin visus, past participle of videre (“to see”). See vision, and confer avise, advise. The unhistoric -d- was introduced in English 15c.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ədˈvaɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ædˈvaɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

advice (countable and uncountable, plural advices)

1. (uncountable) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

   She was offered various piece of advice on what to do with her new-found wealth.

   • 1732, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

     We may give advice, but we can not give conduct.

2. (uncountable, obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
   • c. 1589-1593, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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

3. (archaic, commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence

   late advices from France

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

   a letter of advice

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

5. (uncountable, law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

6. (countable, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.

Synonyms

• counsel, suggestion, recommendation, rede, admonition, exhortation, information, tip, notice
• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

• advice boat
• adviceful
• avizefull

Related terms

• advise
• adviso
• aviso

Translations

opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel

• Albanian: këshillë (sq) f
• Amharic: ምክር (məkr)
• Arabic: نَصِيحَة f (naṣīḥa), مَشُورَة f (mašūra)
• Aragonese: consello m
• Armenian: խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd)
• Azerbaijani: məsləhət (az)
• Bashkir: кәңәш (kəñəş)
• Belarusian: пара́да f (paráda), саве́т m (savjét)
• Bengali: পরামর্শ (pôramôrśô)
• Bulgarian: съве́т (bg) m (sǎvét), препоръ̀ка (bg) f (preporǎ̀ka)
• Burmese: အကြံပေးချက် (my) (a.krampe:hkyak), အကြံ (my) (a.kram), ဩဝါဒ (my) (au:wada.), ပြောစကား (my) (prau:ca.ka:)
• Catalan: consell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勸告／劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 劝告 (zh) (quàngào), 忠告 (zh) (zhōnggào), 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 建议 (zh) (jiànyì)

• Czech: rada (cs) f
• Danish: råd n
• Dutch: raad (nl) m, advies (nl) n
• Esperanto: konsilo
• Estonian: nõu
• Finnish: neuvo (fi)
• French: conseil (fr) m
• Galician: consello m
• Georgian: რჩევა (rčeva)
• German: Rat (de) m
• Greek: συμβουλή (el) f (symvoulí)

  Ancient: συμβουλή f (sumboulḗ)

• Hebrew: עֵצָה (he) f (eitsá)
• Hindi: सलाह (hi) f (salāh)
• Hungarian: tanács (hu)
• Icelandic: ráð (is) n, ábending f
• Ido: konsilo (io)
• Indonesian: advis (id)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: airle f
• Italian: consiglio (it) m
• Japanese: 助言 (ja) (じょげん, jogen), 注意 (ja) (ちゅうい, chūi), 忠告 (ja) (ちゅうこく, chūkoku), アドバイス (ja) (adobaisu)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: кеңес (kk) (keñes)
• Khmer: ដំបូន្មាន (km) (dɑmboun miən)
• Korean: 조언 (ko) (jo'eon), 충고 (ko) (chunggo), 권고 (ko) (gwon'go)
• Kyrgyz: кеңеш (ky) (keŋeş)
• Lao: ຄຳແນະນຳ (kham næ nam), ປະກອນ (pa kǭn)
• Latgalian: padūms
• Latin: cōnsilium n
• Latvian: padoms m, padoms
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: patarimas m
• Luxembourgish: Rot (lb) m
• Macedonian: совет m (sovet), препорака f (preporaka)
• Maltese: parir m
• Maore Comorian: fikira
• Maori: whakamāherehere, kupu āwhina, kupu tohutohu
• Mongolian: зөвлөгөө (mn) (zövlögöö)
• Nepali: सल्लाह (sallāha​)
• Ngazidja Comorian: waswia
• Norwegian: råd (no) n
• Old French: cunseill
• Oriya: ଉପଦେଶ (upadeśa)
• Pashto: مصلحت m (maslehát), نصيحت (ps) m (nasihát), پند m (pand)
• Persian: پند (fa) (pand), اندرز (fa) (andarz), نصیحت (fa) (nasihat), توصیه (fa) (tousiye), مصلحت (fa) (maslehat)
• Polish: rada (pl) f, porada (pl) f, wskazówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: conselho (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਲਾਹ (pa) (salāh), ਨਸੀਹਤ (nasīhat)
• Romanian: sfat (ro) n, îndrumare (ro) f
• Russian: сове́т (ru) m (sovét), рекоменда́ция (ru) f (rekomendácija), наставле́ние (ru) n (nastavlénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са́вјет m (Ijekavian), са́вет m (Ekavian)

  Roman: sávjet (sh) m (Ijekavian), sávet (sh) m (Ekavian)

• Sinhalese: අවවාදය (si) (awawādaya)
• Slovak: rada f
• Slovene: nasvet (sl) m
• Spanish: consejo (es) m
• Swahili: ushauri (sw)
• Swedish: råd (sv) n
• Tajik: маслиҳат (tg) (maslihat), насиҳат (nasihat), панд (tg) (pand), машварат (mašvarat), тавсия (tavsiya)
• Tamil: அறிவுரை (ta) (aṟivurai)
• Telugu: సలహా (te) (salahā)
• Thai: คำแนะนำ (kam-nɛ́-nam), อาเทศ (aa-têet)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tavsiye (tr) öneri (tr) öğüt (tr)
• Turkmen: maslahat
• Ukrainian: ра́да (uk) f (ráda), пора́да (uk) f (poráda)
• Urdu: صلاح f (salāh), نصیحت f (nasīhat)
• Uyghur: مەسلىھەت (meslihet)
• Uzbek: maslahat (uz), kengash (uz)
• Vietnamese: lời khuyên
• Volapük: konsäl (vo)
• Welsh: cyngor (cy) m
• Yiddish: עצה f (eytse), ייצע f (eytse)

information or notice given

• Bulgarian: изве́стие (bg) n (izvéstie), съобще́ние (bg) n (sǎobšténie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: aankondiging (nl) f
• Finnish: tieto (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: advis (id)
• Italian: avviso (it) m
• Russian: сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), изве́стие (ru) n (izvéstije), извеще́ние (ru) n (izveščénije), уведомле́ние (ru) n (uvedomlénije)
• Spanish: aviso (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Basque: ^{(please verify)} aholku, ^{(please verify)} jakinarazpen
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See also

• advice boat
• take advice

Verb

advice (third-person singular simple present advic, present participle ed, simple past and past participle adviced)

1. Misspelling of advise.

References

• “advice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.