COUNSELLOR • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Counsellor

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈaʊnsələr/ /kˈaʊnslər/ Listen

noun

counsellor n. Same as counselor.

Synonyms: counselor.

Counselor n. (Written also counsellor)

One who counsels; an adviser. "Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no?"

A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. Note: (See under Consilor.)

One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.

Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law; attorney. "Good counselors lack no clients."

Someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp.

See images of 'Counsellor'

Etymology of 'Counsellor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Counsellor" Quotes from Famous Books

... sulkily aloof from Mr. and Mrs. Halliday for some time after their marriage, and allowed people to see that he considered himself very hardly used; but Prudence, which had always been Philip Sheldon's counsellor, proved herself also his consoler in this crisis of his life. A careful consideration of his own interests led him to perceive that the successful result of his love-suit would have been about the worst thing that could have happened ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... answered Artaban, "it was the Hebrew Daniel, the mighty searcher of dreams, the counsellor of kings, the wise Belteshazzar, who was most honoured and beloved of our great King Cyrus. A prophet of sure things and a reader of the thoughts of the Eternal, Daniel proved himself to our people. And these ...

— The Blue Flower, and Others • Henry van Dyke

... closer, with a warm and comforting pressure. He knew—or he thought he knew—what this revelation would mean to her. Had not Bertrand been even more her friend, her trusted counsellor, than his own? ...

— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... in the Riviera express: "I am absolutely broke. I'm up against it, up against the great It, and it's neck or nothing for me, my boy—so I'm off for Monte Carlo. I'm going to leave it to Chance, and Chance is the best counsellor after all. What's human wisdom by the side of Chance? Just a turn of the wheel, and ...

— Europe--Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham

... master—for the Abbe de Chastellar, his mother's brother, who had been appointed his guardian by his father's will, scarcely attempted to exercise even a nominal jurisdiction over him—he felt himself more than ever at a loss, deprived as he was, when he most needed it, of his best natural counsellor; and instead of rejoicing, was more than half inclined to lament over the almost absolute self-control with which he ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various

More quotes...