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 For teachers and counselors citing the research with families, that nuance matters. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026 This includes — but is not limited to — nurses at state hospitals and prisons, cooks employed by the California Highway Patrol academy and counselors at the California School for the Deaf. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 The school offered assistance from counselors if any students needed it. — Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Kotch and Parnevik, as the negligently canoodling counselors, inspire the opposite reaction as two characters whose destiny is inevitable and earned. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026 Meatballs stars the pair as counselors making bad decisions at a failing summer camp. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026 Only 54% of counselors recommend trades, versus 88% who recommend universities. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026 Those lawsuits were filed by the parents of most of the campers and counselors killed. — San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026 The camp is seeking to reorganize after 27 campers and counselors died in the 2025 Guadalupe River flood; a state legislative probe found an earlier evacuation could have saved every life. — Jim Vertuno, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The trend that advisors and insiders seem to be talking about these days is how shoulder season is the new peak season.

— Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
During that time, military advisers from Hezbollah and Iran helped train Houthi commanders and combatants — and built up the group's ability to manufacture its own weapons, including drones and missiles, according to analysts.

— Dov Lieber, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The panel of outside experts that met in July was selected by Kennedy's health department and included several doctors, pharmacists and consultants who work in the peptide field.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
If California couldn't enforce basic travel and staffing requirements, who was overseeing the rest of the quarter-billion dollars paid to these consultants?

— Tyler Horst, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026