attorney

«attorney» in Mova's school dictionary: a person trusted to act for someone else in law or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (attorneys)

meaning for a pupil

(old use) a person trusted to act for someone else in law or business; today we would say a lawyer. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, the man who looks after another person's affairs and papers, often a lawyer or agent.

examples

• The attorney came to the house with the papers. tree →
• Neither the scrivener nor the attorney was sent for. tree →
• The attorney counted the gold for the family. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «attorney» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.