king's counsel

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   Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king

   BroaderCounsel to the Crown

Questions about king's counsel

What does king's counsel mean?

king's counsel means "Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king".

Is king's counsel a common word?

king's counsel 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.