Teach vs Counsel - What's the difference?
teach | counsel | Synonyms |
To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.
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(label) To pass on knowledge to.
(label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
(label) To cause to learn or understand.
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The exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 1
Exercise of judgment; prudence.
* Hooker
Advice; guidance.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiii. 11
* Bible, Proverbs xii. 5
(obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
* Gower
A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
To give advice, especially professional advice.
To recommend
As verbs the difference between teach and counsel
is that teach is to show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct while counsel is to give advice, especially professional advice.As nouns the difference between teach and counsel
is that teach is teacher while counsel is the exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.As a proper noun Teach
is nickname for a teacher.teach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys
Rob Dorit
Making Life from Scratch, passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}
Synonyms
* (sense) educate, instructAntonyms
* (sense) learnDerived terms
* * teacher * teachingEtymology 2
(probably clipping)Noun
(es)counsel
English
Noun
(en noun)- All the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
- They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.
- I like thy counsel ; well hast thou advised.
- It was ill counsel had misled the girl.
- The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
- The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
- thilke lord to whom no counsel may be hid
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.
- Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.