attorney

1. 1.

   a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

   Synonymslawyer

   Broaderprofessional

   Narroweradvocateambulance chaserbarristerconveyancerdefense attorneydivorce lawyerprosecutorpublic defenderrefereesolicitor

   Part oflawyer-client relation

   law

Other forms of attorney

plural

attorneys·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about attorney

What does attorney mean?

attorney means "a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice".

How many syllables are in attorney?

attorney has 3 syllables: at-tor-ney. The stress falls on "tor". In IPA it is /əˈtɝni/.

What is another word for attorney?

Close synonyms include lawyer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attorney a common word?

attorney is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attorney?

1 word rhymes with attorney. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.