What Is Another Meaning For Guidance?

It may be that your question is referring to the term guidance having multiple meanings. Guidance can have two possible meanings depending on the sentence or situation you are using it in. Guidance may be defined as the giving of information for the use of counseling, advising or helping a person to solve a particular problem or circumstance.

For example, a student could receive guidance on the type of college they should go to, or a person could receive guidance from a lawyer when contemplating a legal matter.

Guidance can also be defined as the positioning or aiming of an object towards another, for example the guidance of a missile towards something.

It could be that your question refers to alternative way of stating the word guidance or having another word to use as an alternative or replacement for the word guidance. For the purposes of this answer, I shall assume that we are referring to the first definition of guidance.

In this case, guidance could also be described as:

• counsel (helping someone to address a problem)
• advice (on a solution)
• lead (in the right direction)
• direct (guide or offer solution)
• manage (help to maintain or improve a problem)
• control (take possession of a decision)
• help (someone with a problem)
• assist (someone with a problem)
• direct (in the right direction)
• steer (in the right direction)
• instruct (on a proper course of action)
• focus (on a particular problem).

In brackets I have tried to help you understand each word a little more to show why these words have been suggested as alternatives to the word guidance. The words that are used instead of the term guidance can also be referred to as synonyms of the word and a thesaurus may also help to provide other suggestions as to alternatives for the word guidance.