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noun

Counselor n. (Written also counsellor)

One who counsels; an adviser. "Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no?"

A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. Note: (See under Consilor.)

One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.

Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law; attorney. "Good counselors lack no clients."

Someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Counselor" Quotes from Famous Books

... "semi-official" statement has the hardihood to state to the world that the American Minister (Brand Whitlock) had admitted that "no such promise or assurance was given," and it places the responsibility upon M. Deleval, the Belgian legal counselor of the American Embassy. But this impudent lie is speedily overthrown by the positive statement of our Minister at Belgium to our Ambassador in ...

— The Case of Edith Cavell - A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants • James M. Beck

... best,' the motto a Western theater man hung up in his place, would be a good thing here. Yet the pianist of one of these dance halls is by no means to be despised. It was from a position like this that Counselor Disbecker rose within a few years to a legal standing that enabled him to get $70,000 out of Jake Sharpe for lawyer's fees. Transpositions are rapid in New York, and Billy McGlory, who was on the Island a few months ago for selling liquor without license, may be an excise commissioner himself ...

— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... and their families stood at the window of an office which had "B. Windham, Attorney and Counselor," inscribed upon its door. Benito had but recently passed his law examination and Alice was ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... girl's cheeks, which had been flushed with fresh hopes, and her counselor had just expressed his wish to talk the matter over with the lady Berenike, when she came into the room. She was now dressed in mourning, and her pale, beautiful face showed the traces of the tears she had just shed. The dark shadows which, when they surround ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... postpone the culmination to a more favorable opportunity. Following this line of thought the Prime Minister calmed the sovereign's fears, and the King, trusting to the prudence and shrewdness of his chief counselor, dismissed the matter ...

— The Fifth of November - A Romance of the Stuarts • Charles S. Bentley

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