advocate
Plural: advocates
Noun
- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
- a lawyer who pleads cases in court
- Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
- Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
- A person who speaks in support of something, or someone; proponent
- A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Verb
Verb Forms: advocated, advocating, advocates
- To publicly recommend or support.
- push for something
- speak, plead, or argue in favor of
- "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"
- To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
- To encourage support for something.
- To engage in advocacy.
- To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
- To call a case before itself for decision.
Examples
- I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.
- I will always advocate for challenging a word you don’t recognize.
- Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.
- We have been advocating for changes in immigration law.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English advocat, advoket, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus (“an advocate”), from the substantivization of the perfect passive participle of advocāre (“to call for”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos) (whence English paraclete). Doublet of advoke, avocat, avouch, and avow. The verb derives from the noun on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Synonyms
advocator, counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law, exponent, pleader, preach, proponent, recommend, urge
Scrabble Score: 14
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