Definitions for advocate

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advocate ad·vo·cate

Spelling: [verb ad-vuh-keyt; noun

IPA: /verb ˈæd vəˌkeɪt; noun ˈæd və kɪt, -ˌkeɪt/

Advocate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in advocate (aacdeotv).

Definitions for advocate

noun

1. a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc. (usually followed by of):
2. a person who pleads for or in behalf of another; intercessor.
3. a person who pleads the cause of another in a court of law.

verb (used with object)

1. to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly:

verb (used without object)

1. to act as an advocate:

Origin of advocate

1300-50; Latin advocātus legal counselor (orig. past participle of advocāre to call to one's aid), equivalent to ad- ad- + voc- call (akin to vōx

Examples for advocate

So the advocate cross-examined, though it cannot be said that he had the better of Betty.

It was then that he again came to the front to advocate a just cause.

How, then, are LGBT people to advocate for their rights (civil, human, or otherwise) if they cannot even identify themselves?

Another step is to require a lawyer or advocate present during questioning of people with ID.

They possessed “wisdom beyond their years,” observed The advocate.

I want you, moreover, to advocate our American doctrine of Protection.

Have the great men of England chosen you for their advocate?

I am fighting that quota because I am an advocate of competition.

I should like to consult my own advocate to see what I can do.

Hughes and Eldridge are not “role models for a future generation of… gay people,” as The advocate absurdly stated.