word of advice

1. 1.

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

   “a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality”

   “the warning was to beware of surprises”

   “his final word of advice was not to play with matches”

   Synonymsadmonitionmonitionwarning

   Broaderadvice

   Narrowerexample

Questions about word of advice

What does word of advice mean?

word of advice means "cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)".

What is another word for word of advice?

Close synonyms include admonition, monition, warning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is word of advice a common word?

word of advice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.