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advised |
advisedly |
advisedness |
advisee |
advisement |
adviser
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adviser has 1 sense
- adviser(n = noun.person) advisor, consultant - an expert who gives advice; "an adviser helped students select their courses"; "the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala" has particulars: amicus curiae, friend of the court, backroom boy, brain truster, beauty consultant, counsellor, counselor, agricultural agent, county agent, extension agent, fashion consultant, fashionmonger, investment adviser, investment advisor, management consultant, media consultant, media guru, military adviser, military advisor, security consultant, starets, tipster, tout
is a kind of authority
Derived form verb advise1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
adviser, n. (also disp. advisor)
1 a person who advises, esp. one appointed to do so and regularly consulted.
2 US a person who advises students on education, careers, etc.
1 a person who advises, esp. one appointed to do so and regularly consulted.
2 US a person who advises students on education, careers, etc.
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The disputed form advisor is prob. influenced by the adj. advisory.
THESAURUS
adviser
Dutch uncle, Polonius, admonisher, announcer, annunciator, authority, backseat driver, buttinsky, channel, cicerone, communicant, communicator, confidant, confidante, consultant, counsel, counselor, enlightener, expert, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, guide, informant, information center, information medium, informer, instructor, interviewee, kibitzer, meddler, mentor, monitor, mouthpiece, nestor, newsmonger, notifier, orienter, preceptist, press, public relations officer, publisher, radio, reporter, source, spokesman, teacher, television, teller, tipster, tout, witnessROGET THESAURUS
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N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.Advice
N advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.
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