advocate
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (2)advocates, advocated, advocating
- push for something“The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day”Synonyms: recommendurgeMore general propose, suggestMore specific prescribe
- speak, plead, or argue in favor of“The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house”Synonyms: preachMore general urge, urge onMore specific sermonize, sermonise
Noun (2)advocates
- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an ideaSynonyms: advocatorproponentexponentType of actor, doerKinds spokesperson, communist, neutralist, supporter, Platonist, ideologist, secularist, apologist, democrat, republican +32 more
- a lawyer who pleads cases in courtSynonyms: counselcounselorcounsellorcounselor-at-lawpleaderType of lawyer, attorney
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Translations
Noun person who argues the case of another
Noun person who speaks in support of something
- Spanish
- defensor
- German
- Fürsprecher
- Portuguese
- defensor
- Russian
- сторо́нник storónnik
- Dutch
- voorstander
- Polish
- adwokat
- Swedish
- förespråkare
- Indonesian
- pembela
- Portuguese (PT)
- defensor
- Danish
- forkæmper
2 more languages
- Finnish
- puolestapuhuja
- Norwegian
- forkjemper
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal.
1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
☞ In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as “counsel,” “counselor,” or “barrister.” In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as “counsel” at the common law.
2. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
3. Christ, considered as an intercessor.
We have an Advocate with the Father.— 1 John ii. 1.
Faculty of advocates Scot., the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. — Lord advocate Scot., the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. — Judge advocate. See under Judge.
Origin: See Advocate, noun, Advoke, Avow.
To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
To advocate the cause of thy client.— Bp. Sanderson (1624).
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated.— Edmund Burke
Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause.— William Mitford
To act as advocate. obsolete Thomas Fuller
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54