consultant

From French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin cōnsultāre (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulere (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kənˈsʌl.tənt/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɐl.tənt/

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consultant (plural consultants)

1. A person or party that is consulted.

   Coordinate terms: consultee, referrer

2. A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
3. (medicine, UK, Ireland) A senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consultant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• consultant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.sulˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kon.sulˈtant]
• Rhymes: -ant

consultant

1. gerund of consultar

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.syl.tɑ̃/

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• Homophone: consultants

consultant (feminine consultante, masculine plural consultants, feminine plural consultantes)

1. consulting

consultant m (plural consultants, feminine consultante)

1. (archaic) counselee, advisee (person who solicits advice from a professional)
   1. (archaic) patient (person who solicits medical advice, who sees a doctor)

      Near-synonym: patient

2. consultant (person who offers advice in a professional capacity)

consultant

1. present participle of consulter

• “consultant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈsʊɫ.tant]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈsul̪.t̪an̪t̪]

cōnsultant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of cōnsultō

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consultant m (plural consultants)

1. (Jersey) consultant

Borrowed from French consultant.

• IPA^(key): /kon.sulˈtant/

consultant m (plural consultanți, feminine equivalent consultantă)

1. consultant

• consultanță

• “consultant”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025