jurist
noun/ˈdʒʊrɪst/
Frequency rank: #17,125 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A person with expert knowledge of law; a legal scholar or judge.
Example sentence
The retired jurist spent her final years writing books on constitutional law.
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