1. guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action: "she visited the island on her doctor's advice"
2. a formal notice of a financial transaction: "remittance advices"
3. information; news:archaic"the want of fresh advices from Europe"
Word OriginMiddle 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’.
