English
Noun
Sense: one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- attorney-at-law
- avvocato
- barrister (chiefly UK, IRE, AUS, NZ)
- corporate lawyer
- criminal lawyer
- cyberlawyer
- defence lawyer
- defense attorney (US)
- defender (rare)
- general counsel
- judge advocate (US)
- King's Counsel (UK, CAN, NZ, AUS)
- labour lawyer
- lawyeress (rare or obsolete)
- lawyerling
- legal eagle
- mouthpiece (slang)
- one-horse lawyer
- pettifogger
- Philadelphia lawyer (US)
- prosecuting attorney
- prosecutor
- public defender
- Queen's Counsel (UK, CAN, NZ, AUS)
- sea lawyer
- Senior Counsel (IRE, HK, Commonwealth)
- sharia lawyer
- shyster
- silk
- solicitor
- superlawyer
- underlawyer
Holonyms
Further reading
- “968. lawyer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “lawyer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.