Solicitor: Definition and part of speech

Solicitor

  1. n. The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
  2. n. One who solicits.
  3. n. An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; — formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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