Synonyms for barrister


Grammar : Noun
Spell : bar-uh-ster
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbær ə stər


Définition of barrister

Origin :
  • 1540s, "a student of law who has been called to the bar," from bar (n.3) in the legal sense + -ster. Also see attorney. The second element is obscure.
  • noun attorney
Example sentences :
  • He's a schoolmaster and a barrister and a poet and heaven knows what not.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • The last sentence in the barrister's letter begins with "I despair."
  • Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
  • Daily habit familiarises us with the acting of the barrister.
  • Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
  • And whilst I toyed with her charming daughter, she sent for a barrister.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • He also calls himself a barrister, though he is such only in his own imagination.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • The idea was that I should study Law and come back a barrister.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • My son Henri is a barrister; he comes to see me twice a year.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant
  • He is a barrister—and I thought he only wrote in the Quarterlies.
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • There is a London barrister whose father belonged to the club.
  • Extract from : « Auld Licht Idylls » by J. M. Barrie
  • Was her feeling merely that of a barrister who would argue as well on one side as the other?
  • Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall

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