COUNSELORS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

counselors

noun

variants or counsellors

plural of counselor

as in advisers

a person who gives advice especially professionally a young couple going to a marriage counselor

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counselees

as in lawyers

a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations get the best counselor that money can buy, especially if you're guilty

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Recent Examples of counselors Doctors, nurses, and therapists work alongside counselors, while kids swim, climb rock walls, and spend a few weeks simply being kids. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 For example, Volain said, counselors have recently helped residents understand their options when plans denied coverage for a cancer drug and a power wheelchair. — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 Red Arrow camp co-counselors Dawson Sennes (left) and Danny Sundt (right). — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026 The California Faculty Association, which represents nearly 30,000 professors, lecturers, counselors and librarians at the CSU, also opposed the bills. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The weeklong camp focuses on quarterbacks and receivers, and college players from around the country serve as counselors, as do brothers Peyton, Eli and Cooper Manning. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Additional counselors and social workers will be made available to high school students. — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 Camp counselors intervened and removed the beaver from the girl before the animal escaped into the water, DNR said. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Camp counselors intervened and removed the beaver, which then escaped into the water. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026

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Greenway's founders and advisers include tech executives, CEOs, a onetime Vermont secretary of education, a NASA engineer and current and former administrators from Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Tufts University and other schools.

— Jon Marcus, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026
The store director and client advisers are part of the local community.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of advisers

Noun

Robinson’s lawyers have attempted to undermine several of the exhibits offered by the prosecution, including questioning the accuracy of DNA and its ability to link suspects to crime weapons, which could be a key part of their argument in the trial.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2026
And some oil executives, energy lawyers, and members of the Venezuelan public are raising alarms about the deal’s legality and Betancourt’s involvement.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of lawyers

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This kudzu costs the country $3 trillion a year, the business consultants Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini have estimated.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
As in the April 2025 open house, village officials and consultants from Kimley-Horn listened to residents who offered feedback on what was needed to provide a safer, more walkable corridor along the Village Market Shopping corridor.

— Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026