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advice
What does advice mean?
advice (noun): a proposal for an appropriate course of action.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use advice in a sentence?
- Please follow my advice. (Tatoeba sentence #13019808 by araneo, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce advice?
/ædˈvaɪs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does advice come from?
From Middle English avys, from Old French avis, rebracketed from the phrase ce m'est a vis (“I think”, “it seems to me”, literally “it is to my view”), where vis is from Latin vīsus (“vision, sight”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “advice” mean?
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a proposal for an appropriate course of action
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