Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

senior counsel

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables: se-nior -coun-sel
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).

Example Sentences

"The two Senior Counsels, who were very familiar with each other, were addressing one another as ‘Mister’, while I was addressing both by their Christian names."
"He’s a deputy director of public prosecutions, one of only three Senior Counsel in his division, with an office on the sixth floor of the Innes Court building on Pritchard Street in downtown Johannesburg."

Etymology

From senior + counsel.

Inflected Forms

Senior Counsels (plural) SC (abbreviation)

Phrases

King's Counsel Queen's Counsel take silk

Frequently Paired Words

King's Counsel Queen's Counsel take silk

Questions

What does senior counsel mean?: An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).
Where does senior counsel come from?: From senior + counsel.

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