COUNSELORS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

counselors

noun

variants or counsellors

plural of counselor

as in advisers

a person who gives advice especially professionally a young couple going to a marriage counselor

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counselees

as in lawyers

a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations get the best counselor that money can buy, especially if you're guilty

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Recent Examples of counselors Doctors, nurses, and therapists work alongside counselors, while kids swim, climb rock walls, and spend a few weeks simply being kids. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 For example, Volain said, counselors have recently helped residents understand their options when plans denied coverage for a cancer drug and a power wheelchair. — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 Red Arrow camp co-counselors Dawson Sennes (left) and Danny Sundt (right). — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026 The California Faculty Association, which represents nearly 30,000 professors, lecturers, counselors and librarians at the CSU, also opposed the bills. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The weeklong camp focuses on quarterbacks and receivers, and college players from around the country serve as counselors, as do brothers Peyton, Eli and Cooper Manning. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Additional counselors and social workers will be made available to high school students. — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 Camp counselors intervened and removed the beaver from the girl before the animal escaped into the water, DNR said. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Camp counselors intervened and removed the beaver, which then escaped into the water. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for counselors

Noun

This time, each space will have trained advisers on site from open to close to assist customers.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
Her LIFTed framework coordinates legal, insurance, financial, and tax planning, closing the gaps between advisors who typically work in isolation.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of advisers

Noun

Myers’ lawyers argue his own defense attorney helped turn the jury against him.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
After years of planning and wrangling, after more than $10 million spent on engineers, and lawyers, and architects; after all of the rumors, and headlines, and finger-pointing, the big presentation was ready to be made.

— Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of lawyers

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This kudzu costs the country $3 trillion a year, the business consultants Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini have estimated.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
As in the April 2025 open house, village officials and consultants from Kimley-Horn listened to residents who offered feedback on what was needed to provide a safer, more walkable corridor along the Village Market Shopping corridor.

— Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026