Lawyer Meaning
/ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
nounA 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.
Sentence Examples
I have a feeling you'll be a very good lawyer.
Better to get advice from your lawyer.
She's a well-known lawyer with many famous clients.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The defendant hired a highly skilled ____ to defend him in court.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ and his client discussed the legal strategy that they would use during the upcoming trial tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…]."
— 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
"Mr. Wells was a pleasant man of middle-age, with keen eyes, and the typical lawyer’s mouth."
— 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 59:
"The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom."
— 1881 April, George M. Thomson, “On the Fertilization of New Zealand Flowering Plants”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 13, page 250:
"In the lawyer (Rubus australis) a considerable differentiation has taken place. All the alllies of this plant (such as the true roses, brambles, rasps, &c.), exhibit a strong development of epidermal structures in the form of hooks, spines, or hairs, but in none are these structures so perfect as in our lawyer."
— 1885, New Zealand Journal of Science - Volume 2, page 417:
"A plant that is excessively troublesome in the localities where the native vegetation has been least disturbed is the “lawyer” (Rubus australis)."
— 1915, John Henderson, P. Marshall, Percy Gates Morgan, The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Reefton Subdivision, Westport and North Westland Division, page 6:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The defendant hired a highly skilled ____ to defend him in court.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ and his client discussed the legal strategy that they would use during the upcoming trial tonight.