n. An opinion recommended, or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel; suggestion.n. Deliberate consideration; reflection; cogitation.n. Information; notice; intelligence; a communication, especially from a distance, containing information: as, to receive advice of a coming storm, or advices from abroad.n. Specifically In com., a notification by one person to another in respect to a business transaction in which they are mutually engaged, as information given by one party to another, by letter, as to the bills or drafts drawn upon him; formal official notice.