barrister

1. 1.

   a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution

   Broaderlawyer

   NarrowerCounsel to the Crownserjeant-at-law

   law

Other forms of barrister

plural

barristers·

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 barrister

What does barrister mean?

barrister means "a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution".

How many syllables are in barrister?

barrister has 3 syllables: bar-ri-ster. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbæɹɪstɚ/.

Is barrister a common word?

barrister is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.