court
The English word “court” has 26 meanings listed here.
- An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
- A housing estate under the Home Ownership Scheme.
- An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
- Royal society.
- The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
- The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
- Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
- Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone.
- The administration of law.
- The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- An organization for the administration of law, consisting of a body of judges with a certain jurisdiction along with its administrative apparatus.
- The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
- The session of a judicial assembly.
- Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
- A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
- A space prepared and decorated by certain bird species in which to advertise themselves for a mate.
- To seek to achieve or win (a prize).
- To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
- To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions.
- To try to win a commitment to marry from.
- To engage in behavior conducive to mating with.
- To attempt to gain alliance with.
- To engage in activities intended to win affections.
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “court” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 589,350 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.