COUNSELLOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does counsellor mean? 

• COUNSELLOR (noun)
  The noun COUNSELLOR has 3 senses:

1. someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp

2. someone who gives advice about problems

3. a lawyer who pleads cases in court

  Familiarity information: COUNSELLOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNSELLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

counsellor; counselor

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

supervisor (one who supervises or has charge and direction of)

Derivation:

counsellorship (the position of counselor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who gives advice about problems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

counsellor; counselor

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

adviser; advisor; consultant (an expert who gives advice)

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

Dutch uncle (a counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly)

Instance hyponyms:

Nestor ((Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy)

Derivation:

counsel (give advice to)

counsellorship (the position of counselor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A lawyer who pleads cases in court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

advocate; counsel; counsellor; counselor; counselor-at-law; pleader

Hypernyms ("counsellor" 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)

Derivation:

counsellorship (the position of counselor)

 Context examples 

I am not one of those that spare their own trouble; and Nanny shall fetch her, however it may put me to inconvenience to have my chief counsellor away for three days.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He is Sir William Felton, who, with my unworthy self, is the chief counsellor of the prince, he being high steward and I the seneschal of Aquitaine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a counsellor she was not wanted; but as an approver, (a much safer character,) she was truly welcome.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In her stead, the perfect likeness of the picture, a child likeness no more, moves about the house; and Agnes—my sweet sister, as I call her in my thoughts, my counsellor and friend, the better angel of the lives of all who come within her calm, good, self-denying influence—is quite a woman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then he took down from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stout old English counsellor looked somewhat blank at this prompt acceptance of his master's bounty.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he had never esteemed my opinion before, he would have thought highly of me then; and, I dare say, left the house thinking me the best friend and counsellor man ever had.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)