advice
Other forms: advices
Advice is a suggestion about what to do. If you just can't decide between the pecan pie and the chocolate torte, ask the waiter for his advice.
Advice comes from old French words for seeing, or view. It first meant opinion, but came to mean an opinion about what to do. If you become President, you'll gather a cabinet to give you their advice. If your doctor tells you to eat better, exercise more, and take up swimming, that's her medical advice. Someone gives you their advice, never "an advice." You can, however, ask for a "piece of advice."
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a proposal for an appropriate course of action
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recommendation
something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable
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indication
something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
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admonition, monition, warning, word of advice
cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)
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referral
a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred
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deterrent example, example, lesson, object lesson
punishment intended as a warning to others
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proposal
something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)
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Vocabulary lists containing advice
Each week, students in a high school English class step up to the mic to share original poems.
Vocabulary from "Beowulf" (translated by by Gummere).
