Lawyer

Quick meaning: Lawyer is a noun meaning A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor).

Meaning

A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor).

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
2. (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
3. (UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.
4. Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
5. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
6. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
7. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

Example Sentences

You've been lawyered!

Mr. Wells was a pleasant man of middle-age, with keen eyes, and the typical lawyer’s mouth.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. [one of various versions of an aphorism in law]

His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].

Word Forms

• lawyers
• lawer
• lawyering
• lawyered

Synonyms for lawyer

Depending on context, synonyms include abogado, advocate, attorney, avocat, counsel, counselor.

Antonyms for lawyer

Common opposites include non-lawyer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attorney, notary, attorney-at-law, barrister, prosecutor, ombudsman.

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