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English

Alternative forms

• lawer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law +? -yer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??j?(?)/, /?l??.?(?)/
• (US, Northern and Western) IPA^(key): /?l??.?/
• (US, Southern) IPA^(key): /?l?.j?/
• Rhymes: -??.?, -??.?(?), -???(?)
• Hyphenation: law?yer

Noun

lawyer (plural lawyers)

1. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

   • 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; […].

   A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

2. (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
3. (Britain, colloquial) The burbot.
4. (Britain, dialect, botany) The stem of a bramble.
5. Any of various plants. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)

1. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
2. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
3. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
4. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

   You've been lawyered!

Related terms

• lawyer up

See also

• solicitor
• barrister

References

Anagrams

• Rawley, warely, yawler

Middle English

Noun

lawyer

1. Alternative form of lawier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from American Spanish avocado, altered—by folk-etymological association with abogado (“lawyer”)—from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl ?huacatl (“avocado”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate.

The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æv??k??d??/
• (General American) enPR: ?v?kä?d?, IPA^(key): /?v??k?do?/, [?v??k??o?], /æv??k?do?/, [æv??k??o?]
• Rhymes: -??d??

Noun

avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)

1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.

   Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate

2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. (color, chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.

Derived terms

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

Descendants

• ? Irish: abhacád

Translations

Adjective

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Translations

See also

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

References

Further reading

• avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• avocado at USDA Plants database
• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Avocado”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN
• cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

Danish

Alternative forms

• avokado

Etymology

From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl ?huacatl (“avocado”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?o?k?æ?d?o]

Noun

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

1. avocado

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.vo??ka?.do?/
• Hyphenation: avo?ca?do

Noun

avocado m (plural avocado's)

1. avocado, alligator pear

Derived terms

• avocadoboom

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: avokad
• ? Sranan Tongo: afkati

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vo?ka.do/
• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

avocado m (invariable)

1. avocado

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abo?kado/, [a.??o?ka.ð?o]
• Homophone: abocado

Etymology 1

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

Noun

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

avocado m (feminine singular avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of avocar.

Further reading

• “avocado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.