counselor-at-law

1. 1.

   a lawyer who pleads cases in court

   Synonymsadvocatecounselcounselorcounsellorpleader

   Broaderlawyer

   law

Questions about counselor-at-law

What does counselor-at-law mean?

counselor-at-law means "a lawyer who pleads cases in court".

How many syllables are in counselor-at-law?

counselor-at-law has 5 syllables: coun-se-lo-r-at--law. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for counselor-at-law?

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

counselor-at-law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.