pleader

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpliːdə/(UK)

Definition of pleader

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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!””
    “‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’”
    “That is the first duty of the juryman, just as it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth.”
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noun

  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!””
    “‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’”
    “That is the first duty of the juryman, just as it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth.”
  2. someone who pleads or implores

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Etymology

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.

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