judge advocate

1. 1.

   an officer assigned to the judge advocate general

   Broadercommissioned officer

   military

2. 2.

   a staff officer serving as legal adviser to a military commander

   Broaderstaff officer

   military

Questions about judge advocate

What does judge advocate mean?

judge advocate means "an officer assigned to the judge advocate general". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is judge advocate a common word?

judge advocate 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.