A counselor is the person you can consult in your time of need. Your school guidance counselor may suggest you take Spanish class next school year. Bueno?
How you define counselor depends on where you are at the time. In court, a counselor is the lawyer who gives clients advice on legal issues and pleads their case in court. During a therapy session, a counselor helps people understand and resolve personal issues. And at summer camp, a counselor is the person who supervises the children's activities and makes sure they stay safe.
Definitions of counselor
noun
someone who gives advice about problems
noun
a lawyer who pleads cases in court
noun
someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp
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This shows grade level based on the word's complexity. [ koun-suh-ler ] / ˈkaʊn sə lər / This shows grade level based on the word's complexity. noun a faculty member who advises students on personal and academic problems, career choices, and the like. an assistant at a children's camp, often a high school or college student, who supervises a group of children or directs a particular activity, as nature study or a sport. a lawyer,
especially a trial lawyer; counselor-at-law. an official of an embassy or legation who ranks below an ambassador or minister.OTHER WORDS FOR counselor
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Also especially British, coun·sel·lor .
Origin of counselor
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English counseiler, counseillour, from Anglo-French cunseiler, cunseiliour, Old French conseilleor, conseillier; see origin at counsel, -eur, -er2, -or2
OTHER WORDS FROM counselor
coun·se·lor·ship; especially British, coun·sel·lor·ship, nounpre·coun·sel·lor, noun
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH counselor
councillor, counselor
Words nearby counselor
counsel, counselee, counseling, counselling, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law, count, countable, countably additive function, countably compact set
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Words related to counselor
advocate, instructor, mentor, teacher, attorney, counsel, front, guide, lip, mouthpiece, pleader, solicitor, squeal, ambulance chaser, legal eagle
How to use counselor in a sentence
She volunteers as an online peer counselor for Maryland residents who have tested positive.
My energy wasn’t placed on schoolwork, but on what my parents and school counselors glibly called “extra curriculars.”
Many children, worried that their parents may overhear them talking about their problems to counselors, have used the texting service.
Elrich said he “would rather not” have a permanent police presence in schools and would like to hire more counselors and therapists.
She told the paper her primary purpose is her work as a counselor, and she hopes her people skills will transfer as a Council member.
Mariame protests, and tells the guidance counselor that she does not understand.
She must leave the banlieue, just as she insists to the school counselor, that she must go to high school.
She begs the guidance counselor to let her advance to high school.
If you identify with two or more of the following traits, you may want to seek out a nutritionist or counselor, according to Dunn.
Caroline Trimm, a nurse counselor at Greenwich House in the SoHo district of Manhattan, seems to have the opposite view.
Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counselor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour.
On the following day she told him that I was the widow of a counselor, who, being poor, lived in retirement.
The well-educated woman physician should be the friend and counselor of the mother during this anxious period.
He was made baron, and became, next to Kaunitz, the most influential counselor of the empress.
Sakkataka or Sasachatoko was at one time chief counselor of the Sachem of the tribe.