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King's Counsels

King's Counsels is the plural of King's Counsel.

Meaning of King's Counsel

Noun

King's Counsel (plural King's Counsel or King's Counsels, abbreviation KC)

  1. (Canada, New Zealand, UK, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
    • When the case eventually came to court in December 1903, Wellcome’s team, headed by Moulton, contained three King’s Counsel; they had marshalled seventy-two witnesses and intimated that they could produce as many again.1994, Robert Rhodes James, “‘A Morbid Misery’”, in Henry Wellcome, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 292
  2. (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.

Questions about King's Counsels

What is King's Counsels the plural of?
King's Counsels is the plural of King's Counsel.

Words near King's Counsels in the dictionary

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  4. King's College
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  7. King's Cove
  8. King's Cross
  9. king's cushion
  10. King's Daughters
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