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counsellor

/ ˈkaʊnsələ /

noun

  1. a person who gives counsel; adviser
  2. a person, such as a social worker, who is involved in counselling
  3. Also calledcounselor-at-law a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  4. a senior British diplomatic officer
  5. a US diplomatic officer ranking just below an ambassador or minister
  6. a person who advises students or others on personal problems or academic and occupational choice


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Derived Forms

  • ˈcounsellorˌship, noun

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Example Sentences

As the counsellor told me, “All of this is done on a lot of faith.”

“The occupied territories are not treated as part of Israel,” the commercial affairs counsellor told me at the time.

You will follow the suite of my daughter to Spain, and you will become the bosom Counsellor of the wife of your Prince?

Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.

Every counsellor giveth out counsel, but there is one that is a counsellor for himself.

Counsellor Hagen, formerly secretary to the famous baron Gortz, shot himself through the head.

While a counsellor was pleading at the Irish bar, a louse unluckily peeped from under his wig.

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