SOLICITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solicitor mean? 

• SOLICITOR (noun)
  The noun SOLICITOR has 2 senses:

1. a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes

2. a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents

  Familiarity information: SOLICITOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLICITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

canvasser; solicitor

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

petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant (one praying humbly for something)

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

fundraiser (someone who solicits financial contributions)

Derivation:

solicit (make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("solicitor" 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 "solicitor"):

law agent (a solicitor in Scotland)

Derivation:

solicitorship (the position of solicitor)

 Context examples 

“—Is,” said Traddles, “that this branch of the law, even if Mr. Micawber were a regular solicitor—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you should have known better.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I am a solicitor's clerk," said he.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The second stranger, who had hitherto lingered in the background, now drew near; a pale face looked over the solicitor's shoulder—yes, it was Mason himself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘Oh,’ said he, ‘his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.’

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

Exit the solicitor.

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

I have the clearest claim upon half of their present estate, and if they could have found a single paper—which, fortunately, was in the strong-box of my solicitors—they would undoubtedly have crippled our case.

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

First, he asked if a man in England might have two solicitors or more.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The solicitor addressed me as he descended the stair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He is, to some faded courts held in Doctors' Commons,—a lazy old nook near St. Paul's Churchyard—what solicitors are to the courts of law and equity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)