BARRISTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barrister mean? 

• BARRISTER (noun)
  The noun BARRISTER has 1 sense:

1. a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution

  Familiarity information: BARRISTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRISTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("barrister" is a kind of...):

attorney; lawyer (a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barrister"):

Counsel to the Crown (a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler)

sergeant; sergeant-at-law; serjeant; serjeant-at-law (an English barrister of the highest rank)

 Context examples 

Only a barrister is eligible for such preferments; and Mr. Micawber could not be a barrister, without being entered at an inn of court as a student, for five years.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He went to college, and he got—plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is such a dissipated young man, they will never make much of him, I think.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the course of my stumbling upstairs, I fancied I heard a pleasant sound of laughter; and not the laughter of an attorney or barrister, or attorney's clerk or barrister's clerk, but of two or three merry girls.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)