Definitions for barrister

barrister bar·ris·ter

Spelling: [bar-uh-ster]
IPA: /ˈbær ə stər/

Barrister is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 405 anagrams from letters in barrister (abeirrrst).

Definitions for barrister

noun

  1. (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).
  2. Informal. any lawyer.

Origin of barrister

1535-45; derivative of bar1, perhaps after obsolete legister lawyer or minister

Examples for barrister

He's a schoolmaster and a barrister and a poet and heaven knows what not.

And whilst I toyed with her charming daughter, she sent for a barrister.

The dean told him face to face that Africans lacked the innate skills necessary to become a barrister.

Alamuddin was invited to become a barrister, an elite group of British lawyers, in 2010.

Daily habit familiarises us with the acting of the barrister.

He also calls himself a barrister, though he is such only in his own imagination.

The founder, Motilal Nehru, an Anglophile barrister, was a liberal member of the Indian nationalist movement.

It tells the story a British barrister, a criminal lawyer, in mid-life crisis.

The idea was that I should study Law and come back a barrister.

The last sentence in the barrister's letter begins with "I despair."

Word Value for barrister
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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