WORD OF ADVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does word of advice mean? 

• WORD OF ADVICE (noun)
  The noun WORD OF ADVICE has 1 sense:

1. cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

  Familiarity information: WORD OF ADVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORD OF ADVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

admonition; monition; warning; word of advice

Context example:

his final word of advice was not to play with matches

Hypernyms ("word of advice" is a kind of...):

advice (a proposal for an appropriate course of action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word of advice"):

deterrent example; example; lesson; object lesson (punishment intended as a warning to others)

 Context examples 

There was nobody to tell him, to hint to him, to give him the least word of advice.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If I might offer you a word of advice, Inspector, it would be to arrest the page, who, as I understand, has only recently come into your service, Doctor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Take a word of advice, even from three foot nothing. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I might venture to offer you a word of advice, said the affable official, it would be to make for the Hampshire line, for Sir James Ford, on the Surrey border, has as great an objection to such assemblies as I have, whilst Mr. Merridew, of Long Hall, who is the Hampshire magistrate, has fewer scruples upon the point.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)