lawyer

Meanings

Noun

• A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.
• A legal layman who argues points of law.
• The burbot.
• The stem of a bramble.
• Any of various plants.

Verb

• To practice law.
• To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
• To make legalistic arguments.
• To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

Related

Similar words

• advocate
• attorney
• counselor

Origin

• From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.