Noun

(en noun)

A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

Discussion or deliberation.

* Milton

Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.

* Alexander Pope

O great in action and in council wise.

Noun

(en-noun)

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

We may give advice , but we can not give conduct. — Franklin.

(obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.

How shall I dote on her with more advice,''' That thus without '''advice begin to love her? — Shakespeare.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.

(McElrath)

(legal) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

(Wharton)

(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.