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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