English Online Dictionary. What means lawyer? What does lawyer mean?
English
Alternative forms
- lawer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/, /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/
- (US, Northern and Western) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
- (US, Southern) IPA(key): /ˈlɔ.jɚ/
- Hyphenation: law‧yer
- Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ), -ɔː.jə(ɹ)
Noun
lawyer (plural lawyers)
- A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
- A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
- A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation
- (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law.
- (UK, colloquial) The burbot.
- (UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.
- Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
- Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
- A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
Synonyms
- advocate
- attorney
- counselor
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lawyer (third-person singular simple present lawyers, present participle lawyering, simple past and past participle lawyered)
- (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
- (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
- (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
- (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
- You've been lawyered!
Related terms
- lawyer up
Translations
See also
- solicitor
- barrister
References
Anagrams
- Rawley, warely, yawler
Middle English
Noun
lawyer
- Alternative form of lawier