English Explanatory Dictionary

attorney

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
  2. An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf in accordance with that person's instructions.
  3. One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
  4. A solicitor.
  5. An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
  6. An attorney tree (Clusia spp.)
  7. A prosecutor.
verb
  1. To work as a legal attorney.
  2. To provide with a legal attorney.

Pronunciation

En-us-attorney.ogg /əˈtɜːni/ /əˈtɜɹni/ /ʔɐˈtoɹ.ni/

Word forms

attorney attorneys attornies actorney attorneying attorneyed

Etymology

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

Synonyms

lawyer barrister solicitor counsel counselor advocate[Appendix:Glossary abogado advocate attorney avocat latitat lawman legal representative limb of the law man of law agent proxy representative

Related words

mouthpiece spokesperson

Derived words

attorney-at-law attorney at law attorney-client privilege attorneydom attorney general attorney-general attorney-in-fact attorneyism attorney of record attorney record attorneyship cartooney Crown attorney defense attorney district attorney letter of attorney patent attorney plaintiff's attorney power of attorney prosecuting attorney Scotch attorney subattorney substitution of attorney trade mark attorney United States Attorney warrant of attorney
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