Court
An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether 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; as, to hold a court.
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
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 causes.
A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
The judge or judges; 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 game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
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Court Quotations
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Michael Jackson
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Albert Schweitzer
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
Rush Limbaugh
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley
Court Translations
court in Afrikaans is hof
court in Dutch is het hof maken, scharrelen, vrijen
court in Finnish is piha
court in French is briguez, briguer, cour, briguons, briguent
court in German is Hof, Gericht(shof)
court in Italian is cortile, pietanza
court in Latin is curia
court in Norwegian is domstol
court in Spanish is patio, corral
court in Swedish is domstol, hov
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