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Definition of Counsellor
1. Noun. Someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp.
Generic synonyms: Supervisor
Derivative terms: Counsellorship, Counselorship
2. Noun. Someone who gives advice about problems.
Generic synonyms: Adviser, Advisor, Consultant
Specialized synonyms: Dutch Uncle
Specialized synonyms: Nestor
Derivative terms: Counsel, Counsellorship, Counsel, Counselorship
3. Noun. A lawyer who pleads cases in court.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Attorney, Lawyer
Derivative terms: Counsel, Counsellorship, Counselorship, Plead
Definition of Counsellor
1. Noun. (Commonwealth) (alternative spelling of counselor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counsellor
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counsellor
Literary usage of Counsellor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington (1854)
"Somerset Butler) challenges counsellor Burrowes.—. The Latter hit, but his Life
saved by some Gingerbread Nuts—Lord Kilkenny's Duel with ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"Such an adviser, legal assessor and diplomatic counsellor, was Procopius : not
the general's 2 Tort 81/ ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"What can be said for such a counsellor ? He is awful in his smiling experience,
... And yet this devil's counsellor, with his wicked words on his lips, ..."
4. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1846)
"Harris H. Hickman, counsellor at Law. Abraham Fuller Hull, counsellor at Law and
Secretary to the commission. Whitmore Knaggs, William Walker, ..."
5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... an attorney at New York, and a counsellor; James Delancey, a captain in the
army; John Watts, a contractor with Harley and Oliver Delancey; ..."
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