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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

Cf. French avocat (lawyer)

Noun

avocat (plural avocats)

1. An advocate, a lawyer

References

• avocat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “avocat”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v?.ka/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin advoc?tus. Doublet of avoué.

Noun

avocat m (plural avocats, feminine avocate)

1. (law) lawyer; attorney

Derived terms

• avocat du diable

Descendants

• Turkish: avukat

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

Noun

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. avocado

Synonyms

• poire d'avocat

Descendants

• ? Khmer: ????????? (?aavoukaa)
• ? Norman: avocat

References

Further reading

• “avocat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ladin

Alternative forms

• aucat

Etymology

From Latin advocatus.

Noun

avocat m (plural avocac)

1. lawyer, solicitor
2. advocate

Latin

Verb

?vocat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ?voc?

Norman

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin advoc?tus (“advocate”).

Noun

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. (Jersey) advocate
2. (Jersey, law) barrister

Synonyms

• homme d'affaithes

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French avocat, from Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl ?huacatl. Influenced by confusion with Spanish abogado (“lawyer”).

Noun

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. (Jersey) avocado

Derived terms

• avocatchi (“avocado tree”)

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Latin advocatus.

Noun

avocat m (plural avocats, feminine avocata, feminine plural avocatas)

1. lawyer, attorney

Etymology 2

From Spanish avocado.

Noun

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. avocado

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin advoc?tus (“advocate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /avu?kat/

Noun

avocat m (plural avocat)

1. lawyer

Romanian

Alternative forms

• advocat (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from French avocat, Latin advocatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vo?kat/

Noun

avocat m (plural avoca?i, feminine equivalent avocat?)

1. (law) lawyer, attorney, barrister

Declension

Synonyms

• ap?r?tor
• procator (regional, in Transylvania)
• defensor, vechil (dated)

Derived terms

• a se face avocatul cuiva, a fi avocatul cuiva
• avoca?ial
• avoca?ional
• avoc??el
• avoc??esc

Related terms

• avocatur?

See also

• lege

References

• avocat in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)