lawyer
Meanings
noun
- A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
- A 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.
- A legal layman who argues points of law.
- The burbot.
- The stem of a bramble.
- Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.
- A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis
- Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.
- A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.
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.
name
- A male given name.
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Etymology
From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
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