All advisor synonyms

noun advisor

• adviser — An adviser is an expert whose job is to give advice to another person or to a group of people.
• instructor — a person who instructs; teacher.
• doctor — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
• consultant — A consultant is an experienced doctor with a high position, who specializes in one area of medicine.
• confidant — Someone's confidant is a man who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
• aide — An aide is an assistant to someone who has an important job, especially in government or in the armed forces.
• director — a person or thing that directs.
• tutor — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
• mentor — (in the Odyssey) a loyal adviser of Odysseus entrusted with the care and education of Telemachus.
• lawyer — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
• counselor — A counselor is a person whose job is to give advice to people who need it, especially advice on their personal problems.
• coach — A coach is someone who trains a person or team of people in a particular sport.
• attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
• referee — one to whom something is referred, especially for decision or settlement; arbitrator.
• monitor — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
• helper — a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
• counsel — Counsel is advice.
• authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
• teacher — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
• kibitzer — a spectator at a card game who looks at the players' cards over their shoulders, especially one who gives unsolicited advice.
• priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
• tout — to solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
• judge — Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
• partner — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• friend — a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
• tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.
• quarterback — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
• dutch uncle — a person who criticizes or reproves with unsparing severity and frankness.
• backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
• buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
• second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.