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pleader

/ˈpliːdə/

pleader noun: a person who pleads in court; an advocate.

Noun

pleader (plural pleaders)

  1. a person who pleads in court; an advocate
    • “My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30
    • ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 25
  2. (generally) someone who pleads or implores

pleader meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

pleader in Tamil

வழக்குரைஞர், வாதுரைஞர்

pleader in Urdu

وکیل

pleader in Bengali

আদালতে ওকালতি করা ব্যক্তি

pleader in Telugu

pleader or lawyer
ప్లీడరు plīḍaru
More languagesFewer languages
pleader in Kannada
ಕಟ್ಟಲೆಯರಿಗ, ವಕೀಲ, ನ್ಯಾಯವಾದಿ

Forms of pleader

pluralpleaders

Origin of pleader

Partly from Middle English pleder, pledere, equivalent to plead + -er; and partly from Middle English pledour, plaidour, from Anglo-Norman plaidur, pledour, Old French plaidëor, pledëor.

Words formed from pleader

Words that rhyme with pleader

Questions about pleader

What does pleader mean?
Pleader means a person who pleads in court; an advocate.
What is pleader in Tamil?
Pleader in Tamil is வழக்குரைஞர், வாதுரைஞர். See Pleader meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pleader?
Pleader is a noun.
How do you pronounce pleader?
Pleader is pronounced /ˈpliːdə/ (UK).
What is the plural of pleader?
The plural of pleader is pleaders.

Words near pleader in the dictionary

  1. pleaded over
  2. pleaded the belly
  3. pleaded the blood of Jesus
  4. pleaded the fifth
  5. pleaded up
  6. pleader
  7. pleaders
  8. pleadery
  9. pleadest
  10. pleadeth
  11. pleading

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pleader (page history and authors); pleader (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pleader (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pleader (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్లీడరు (Telugu) (page history and authors); pleader (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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