[ədˈvʌɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action
(e.g: my advice is to see your doctor)

- a formal notice of a financial transaction
(e.g: remittance advices)

- information; news
(e.g: the want of fresh advices from Europe)


Phrases:
- take advice

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French avis, based on Latin ad ‘to’ + visum, past participle of videre ‘to see’. The original sense was ‘way of looking at something, judgement’, hence later ‘an opinion given’