Guidance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Guidance \Guid"ance\, n. [See {Guide}.]
     The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or
     assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           His studies were without guidance and without plan.


                                                    --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  guidance
       n 1: something that provides direction or advice as to a decision
            or course of action [syn: {counsel}, {counseling}, {counselling},
             {direction}]
       2: the act of guiding or showing the way [syn: {steering}]
       3: the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was
          installed under the direction of the king" [syn: {steering},
           {direction}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "guidance":
     abetment, administration, admonition, advice, advisement, advising,
     advocacy, aegis, auspices, authority, backing, briefing, care,
     catechization, caution, caveat, championship, charge, charity,
     coaching, command, conduct, consultation, control, council,
     counsel, countenance, cure, custodianship, custody, didactics,
     direction, edification, education, encouragement, enlightenment,
     exhortation, expostulation, favor, fosterage, goodwill, governance,
     government, guardianship, handling, hands, hortation, husbandry,
     idea, illumination, information, instruction, interest,
     jurisdiction, keeping, lead, leadership, leading, management,
     managery, managing, manipulation, ministry, monition, opinion,
     ordering, oversight, parley, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship,
     patronage, pedagogics, pedagogy, pilotage, private teaching,
     programmed instruction, proposal, protectorship, recommendation,
     reeducation, regulation, remonstrance, rule, running, safe hands,
     schooling, seconding, self-instruction, self-teaching, sponsorship,
     spoon-feeding, steerage, steering, stewardship, suggestion,
     sympathy, teaching, the conn, the helm, the wheel, thought,
     tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, ward, wardenship,
     wardship, warning, watch and ward, wing