barrister
- (in England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts.Compare solicitor(def 4).
- Informal. any lawyer.
Origin of barrister
Examples from the Web for barrister
Contemporary Examples of barrister
Alamuddin was invited to become a barrister, an elite group of British lawyers, in 2010.
The dean told him face to face that Africans lacked the innate skills necessary to become a barrister.
It tells the story a British barrister, a criminal lawyer, in mid-life crisis.
The founder, Motilal Nehru, an Anglophile barrister, was a liberal member of the Indian nationalist movement.
Historical Examples of barrister
He's a schoolmaster and a barrister and a poet and heaven knows what not.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
The last sentence in the barrister's letter begins with "I despair."
Lotus BudsAmy Carmichael
Daily habit familiarises us with the acting of the barrister.
And whilst I toyed with her charming daughter, she sent for a barrister.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
He also calls himself a barrister, though he is such only in his own imagination.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt