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counselor

an advisor; a lawyer; an official of an embassy who ranks below an ambassador or minister [The above words are not interchangeable. A council is an assembly of persons who make deliberations and offer advice. A member of such a group is a councilor. Counsel means advice given to another. A person who gives the advice is a counselor.]

Not to be confused with:

councilor – a member of a council

coun·sel·or

also coun·sel·lor (koun′sə-lər, -slər)

1. A person who gives counsel; an adviser.

2. An attorney, especially a trial lawyer.

3. A person who supervises children at a summer camp.

4. A person, especially a licensed professional, who treats people with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and problems. See Usage Note at council.

coun′se·lor·ship′ n.

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coun•se•lor

(ˈkaʊn sə lər)

n.

1. a person who counsels; adviser.

2. a faculty member, as at a high school, who advises students on personal and academic problems.

3. one of a number of supervisors at a children's camp.

4. a lawyer, esp. a trial lawyer.

5. an official of an embassy or legation who ranks below an ambassador or minister.

Also, esp. Brit., coun′sel•lor.

[1175–1225; Middle English counseiler < Anglo-French cunseiler, Old French conseilleor. See counsel, -er², -or²]

coun′se•lor•ship`, n.

counselor

An attorney, especially one who is conducting a case in court.

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Noun	1.	counselor - someone who gives advice about problems counsellor adviser, advisor, consultant - an expert who gives advice; "an adviser helped students select their courses"; "the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala" Dutch uncle - a counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly
	2.	counselor - someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp counsellor supervisor - one who supervises or has charge and direction of
	3.	counselor - a lawyer who pleads cases in court counsel, counselor-at-law, pleader, advocate, counsellor law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" attorney, lawyer - a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

counselor

also counsellor
noun

1. One who advises another, especially officially or professionally:

adviser, consultant, mentor.

Law: counsel.

2. A person who practices law:

attorney, counsel, lawyer.

Slang: ambulance chaser.

Chiefly British: barrister.

Translations

consejero asesor

counselor

n consejero -ra mf

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"Send the Chief Counselor here!" shouted the angry monarch.

Kaliko ran out as fast as his spindle legs could carry his fat, round body, and soon the Chief Counselor entered the cavern.

"Some people," said the Chief Counselor, "enjoy getting angry."

Hearing this, the King glared at his Counselor with a furious expression and tugged at his own long white whiskers until he pulled them so hard that he yelled with pain.

"I share that honor with your Majesty," said the Chief Counselor.

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"But when he, upon the street, the (in-satin-and-silk-covered- now-very-unconstrained-after-the-newest-fashioned-dressed) government counselor's wife MET," etc., etc.

A writer's ideas must be a good deal confused, a good deal out of line and sequence, when he starts out to say that a man met a counselor's wife in the street, and then right in the midst of this so simple undertaking halts these approaching people and makes them stand still until he jots down an inventory of the woman's dress.

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"It is that, searching well around you, you might perhaps find a female counselor to take with you to your brother, whose eloquence might paralyze the ill-will of the seven others."

then the king's counselors, who are in number seven - Mademoiselle Stewart, Mademoiselle Wells, Mademoiselle Gwyn, Miss Orchay, Mademoiselle Zunga, Miss Davies, and the proud Countess of Castlemaine - will represent to the king that war costs a great deal of money; that it is better to give balls and suppers at Hampton Court than to equip ships of the line at Portsmouth and Greenwich."

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That Avarice is an ardent counselor; she carries away her man, as Satan did Jesus, to the mountain, and when once she has shown to an unfortunate all the kingdoms of the earth, she is able to repose herself, knowing full well that she has left her companion, Envy, to gnaw his heart.

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"How clever!" exclaimed the King, turning a pleased face toward his counselors. "This boy is indeed remarkably bright.

"That question is what your Majesty might call foxy," said one of the counselors, an old grey fox.