solicitor

Other forms of solicitor

plural

solicitors·

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 solicitor

What does solicitor mean?

solicitor means "a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solicitor?

solicitor has 4 syllables: so-lic-i-tor. The stress falls on "lic". In IPA it is /səˈlɪsətɚ/.

What is another word for solicitor?

Close synonyms include canvasser. 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 solicitor a common word?

solicitor 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.