attorney

Meanings

Noun

• A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
• One such who practised in the courts of the common law (cf solicitor, proctor).
• A solicitor.
• An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.

Verb

• To work as a legal attorney.
• To provide with a legal attorney.

Related

Similar words

• mouthpiece
• advocate

Origin

• From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, masculine singular past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner ("to attorn", in the sense of "one appointed or constituted").