advise

Meaning

1. To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
2. To recommend; to offer as advice.
3. To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
4. To consider, to deliberate.
5. (obsolete) To look at, watch; to see.
6. (obsolete) To consult (with).
7. To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ad‧vise

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ədˈvaɪz/

Etymology

From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Late Latin advisō, from ad + visō, from Latin videō (“to see”), visum (“past participle of videō”). See also advice.

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