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noun
A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Synonyms: lawyer, barrister, solicitor, counsel, counselor, advocate[Appendix:Glossary, abogado, advocate, attorney, avocat, latitat, lawman, legal representative, limb of the law, man of law
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Broader terms: person
noun
An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf in accordance with that person's instructions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
Synonyms: agent, proxy, representative
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noun
One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated
Qualifier: 19th century and earlier
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noun
A solicitor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, rare, usually
Qualifier: 20th century and later
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noun
An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, US, sometimes
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noun
An attorney tree (Clusia spp.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A prosecutor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To work as a legal attorney.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, rare
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verb
To provide with a legal attorney.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
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noun
a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lawyer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: professional, professional person
Narrower terms: advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader, ambulance chaser, barrister, conveyancer, defense attorney, defense lawyer, divorce lawyer, prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney, public defender, referee, solicitor, trial attorney, trial lawyer, Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd, Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Great Commoner, Boy Orator of the Platte, Darrow, Clarence Darrow, Clarence Seward Darrow, Hays, Arthur Garfield Hays, Will Hays, William Harrison Hays, Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Key, Francis Scott Key, Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln
History
From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".
Across languages
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