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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for guidance:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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