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Definition of Attorney
1. Noun. A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Specialized synonyms: Advocate, Counsel, Counsellor, Counselor, Counselor-at-law, Pleader, Ambulance Chaser, Barrister, Conveyancer, Defense Attorney, Defense Lawyer, Divorce Lawyer, Prosecuting Attorney, Prosecuting Officer, Prosecutor, Public Prosecutor, Public Defender, Referee, Solicitor, Trial Attorney, Trial Lawyer
Generic synonyms: Professional, Professional Person
Specialized synonyms: Abul-walid Mohammed Ibn-ahmad Ibn-mohammed Ibn-roshd, Averroes, Ibn-roshd, Boy Orator Of The Platte, Bryan, Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Clarence Seward Darrow, Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Hays, Hays, Will Hays, William Harrison Hays, Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Francis Scott Key, Key, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln
Group relationships: Attorney-client Relation, Lawyer-client Relation
Derivative terms: Attorneyship, Law
Definition of Attorney
1. n. A substitute; a proxy; an agent.
2. v. t. To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
Definition of Attorney
1. Noun. (legal) In the United States, a lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession. ¹
2. Noun. An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Attorney
1. a lawyer [n -NEYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attorney
Literary usage of Attorney
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"But in construing these words we must look to the object of the act, which was
not to put an attorney in a more difficult situation than any other person, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"Notice of this motion was served upon the plaintiff in the judgment, who appeared
and filed counter affidavits of himself and of his attorney, William F. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1837)
"The attorney- General (a). So again, if the fund is portioned out among different
... The attorney-General already cited, in which there was a plain ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"An attorney who drew a will may testify on its probate to what transpired between
the ... Directions by a client to his attorney to make a certain contract, ..."
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