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court (s) (noun), courts (pl)
1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.
2. A short street, especially a wide alley walled by buildings on three sides.
3. A large open section of a building, often with a glass roof or skylight.
4. A large building, such as a mansion, standing in a courtyard.
5. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace.
6. The retinue of a sovereign, including the royal family and personal servants, advisers, and ministers.
7. A sovereign's governing body, including the council of ministers and state advisers.
8. A formal meeting or reception presided over by a sovereign.
9. In law, a person, or body of people, whose task is to hear and to submit a decision on cases of law.

The building, hall, or room in which such cases are heard and determined.

10. The regular session of a judicial assembly or a similar authorized tribunal having military or ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
11. In sports, an open level area marked with appropriate lines, upon which a game; such as, tennis, handball, or basketball, is played.
12. Etymology: from Old French curt, from Latin cortem, cors (earlier cohors), "enclosed yard"; and by extension (and perhaps by association with curia, "sovereign's assembly"), "those assembled in the yard; company, cohort"; from com-, "together" + the stem, hort-, related to hortus, "garden, plot of ground".

Sporting sense is from 1519, originally of tennis. Legal meaning is from 1292 (early assemblies for justice were overseen by the sovereign personally); courthouse is from 1483.

Court-martial is first indicated in 1571; as a verb, 1859. Courtier is from 1228; courtly, "having manners befitting a court" is from 1450. Courtship, "paying court to a woman with intention of marriage" is from 1596.

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court (KORT, KOHRT)
1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings: "The court, or court yard, in our apartment is decorated with flowers."
2. A person or body of people whose task is to hear and to submit a legal decision on cases at law. or the building, hall, or room in which such cases are heard and determined: "The court is now is session and it will be adjourned in about two hours."
3. In sports, an open level area marked with appropriate lines, upon which a game; such as, tennis, handball, or basketball, is played: "The sports center has at least one court for handball and even a basketball court."
court (KORT, KOHRT)
1. To try to gain the love or affections of, especially to seek to marry someone: "He said he wanted to court this beautiful woman until she agreed to marry him."
2. To attempt to gain the favor of by attention or flattery: "The speech was clearly intended to court middle-class voters."

The tennis player was trying to court the young woman he was coaching at the local tennis court.

Word Entries containing the term: “court
juvenile court
A court that has jurisdiction in cases involving dependent, neglected, and delinquent children; usually under the age of 18, and is concerned more with "reform and guidance than with punishment".
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(judicial or legal words that may apply to trial processes that determine the guilt or innocence of people which is ascertained by either judges or juries)
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appellate court
A court hearing appeals that come from lower courts. These courts typically do not try criminal cases.
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Criminal Court Words or Judicial Terms

Lists of legal words referring to judiciary or trial courts.

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