advocate /adˈvə-kit or -kāt or -kət/

1. An intercessor or defender
2. Someone who pleads the cause of another
3. In Scotland and some other countries, a person who is qualified to plead before the higher courts of law, a member of the Bar (corresponding to a barrister in England)
4. A person who recommends or urges something, eg a certain reform, method, etc
5. (with cap) the Holy Spirit (New English Bible)
6. (only in Aberdeen) a solicitor

To act as an advocate (for)

adˈvocacy /-kə-si/ noun

1. The function of an advocate
2. A pleading for
3. Defence

advocāˈtion noun

adˈvocātor noun

adˈvocātory adjective

advocate-depˈute noun

A salaried Scottish law-officer appointed as public prosecutor by the Lord Advocate, the chief law-officer of the Crown and public prosecutor of crimes for Scotland

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