counsel

1. 1.

   give advice to

   “The teacher counsels troubled students”

   “The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud”

   Synonymsredeadvise

   Broaderhash out

   Narrowerurgedissuadewarntip offmisadvisepropoundconsultcontraindicate

Other forms of counsel

plural

counsels·

past tense or participle

counselled

present participle

counselling

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 counsel

What does counsel mean?

counsel means "a lawyer who pleads cases in court". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in counsel?

counsel has 2 syllables: coun-sel. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊnsəl/.

What is another word for counsel?

Close synonyms include advocate, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader. 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 counsel a common word?

counsel 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 counsel?

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