Usually means: Advice given formally to someone.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. counsel: Merriam-Webster
  2. counsel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counsel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counsel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counsel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counsel, counsel: Wordnik
  7. counsel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counsel: Wiktionary
  9. counsel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counsel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counsel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. counsel: Dictionary.com
  13. counsel (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. counsel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Counsel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Counsel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. counsel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. counsel: Rhymezone
  19. counsel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. counsel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Counsel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. counsel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. counsel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. counsel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. counsel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. counsel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. counsel: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. counsel: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. counsel: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. counsel: Legal dictionary
  9. counsel: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counsel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. counsel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. counsel: Sound Alike Words
  3. counsel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counsel: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counsel: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counsel)

▸ noun:  The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
▸ noun:  Exercise of judgment; prudence.
▸ noun:  Advice; guidance.
▸ noun:  Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
▸ noun:  A lawyer, as in King's Counsel (KC) or Queen's Counsel (QC).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give advice, especially professional advice, to (somebody).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To recommend (a course of action).

Similar:
advise, counselor, counsellor, guidance, advocate, direction, counselor-at-law, attorney, lawyer, cocounsel, more...

Opposite:
advise, guide, recommend, suggest, instruct

Types:
advice, guidance, recommendation, tip, instruction, direction, more...

Phrases:
Of counsel, General counsel, legal counsel, opposing counsel, independent counsel, more...

Adjectives:
legal, own, general, good, wise, learned, chief, special, independent, outside, whole

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Similar:
advise, counselor, counsellor, guidance, advocate, direction, counselor-at-law, attorney, lawyer, cocounsel, more...

Opposite:
advise, guide, recommend, suggest, instruct

Types:
advice, guidance, recommendation, tip, instruction, direction, more...

Phrases:
Of counsel, General counsel, legal counsel, opposing counsel, independent counsel, special counsel, house counsel, take counsel, took counsel, corporation counsel, legislative counsel, taking counsel, more...

Adjectives:
legal, own, general, good, wise, learned, chief, special, independent, outside, whole

Colors:
    teal,     sage,     charcoal,     maroon,     olive, more...



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