adviser

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ad=vis=er
• COUNT in NET: 27 in 26 verses (in OT : 27 in 26 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

adviser, n. 

 One who advises.  [1913 Webster]

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.

Usage

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, witness

ROGET THESAURUS

adviser

Director

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.