transcription, транскрипция: [ kaʊns(ə)l ]
( counsels, counselling, counselled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'counseling', 'counseled'
1.
Counsel is advice. ( FORMAL )
He had always been able to count on her wise counsel...
His parishioners sought his counsel and loved him.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you counsel someone to take a course of action, or if you counsel a course of action, you advise that course of action. ( FORMAL )
My advisers counselled me to do nothing...
The prime minister was right to counsel caution about military intervention.
VERB : V n to-inf , V n
3.
If you counsel people, you give them advice about their problems.
...a psychologist who counsels people with eating disorders...
Crawford counsels her on all aspects of her career.
VERB : V n , V n on n
4.
Someone’s counsel is the lawyer who gives them advice on a legal case and speaks on their behalf in court.
Singleton’s counsel said after the trial that he would appeal...
N-COUNT : oft supp N