Word a Day
counsel
What does counsel mean?
counsel (noun): a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use counsel in a sentence?
- Everyone has a right to legal counsel. (Tatoeba sentence #13627773 by frpzzd, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce counsel?
/ˈkaʊnsəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does counsel come from?
From Middle English counseil, conseil, from Old French conseil.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of counsel?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “counsel”?
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What does “counsel” mean?
more than half (50%) of some group
Not quite: that's what majority means.
any interconnected group or system
Not quite: that's what network means.
a lawyer who pleads cases in court
Right! That's what “counsel” means.
a device to measure mass or weight
Not quite: that's what scale means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “counsel”?
research
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security
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position
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advocate
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