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# counsel

«counsel» in Mova's school dictionary: **advice** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (counsel, uncountable; counsel = lawyer); verb (counsel, counsels, counselled/counseled, counselling/counseling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Counsel is advice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#m1)

2) To counsel someone is to give them advice, especially about a problem or feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#m2)

3) (law) Counsel is a lawyer who speaks for someone in court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used about school counsellors, help after sad events, law (counsel for the defence) and the Bible (wise counsel).

### examples

- She gave me wise counsel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x1)
- A teacher counselled him after his dog died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x2)
- Counsel for the defence stood up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x3)
- The Bible praises those who listen to good counsel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x4)
- Families are counselled through hard times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x5)
- Keep your own counsel means keep quiet about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x6)
- Rosimond took these wise counsels to heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/#x7)

### note

Homophone: council (a group that runs a town). UK: counselled, counsellor; US: counseled, counselor. Plural for lawyers stays «counsel».

### In the corpora

- [For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.913/)
- [And the men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.205/)
- [Then said Absalom to Ahithophel: 'Give your counsel what we shall do.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.477/)
- [And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.487/)
- [And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.464/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «counsel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counsel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.