Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word COURT

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Definitions of COURT

1. 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.
2. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
3. (ornithology) A space prepared and decorated by certain bird species in which to advertise themselves for a mate.
4. (social) Royal society.
5. (law) The administration of law.
6. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
7. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
8. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
9. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
10. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.
11. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
12. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
13. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
14. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
15. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
16. A Middle English surname from Middle English for someone who worked or lived in a court.
17. A municipality in, Bern, Switzerland.

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Examples of Using COURT in a Sentence

• The nature of an appeal can vary greatly depending on the type of case and the rules of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was prosecuted.
• An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear a case upon appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal.
• The President of the Republic, together with the parliament, appoints the majority of the members of the two highest bodies of the judiciary, that is, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.
• An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to a court by the defendant who has been found guilty before being sentenced.
• An affidavit is a type of verified statement or showing, or in other words, it contains a verification, which means that it is made under oath on penalty of perjury, and this serves as evidence for its veracity and is required in court proceedings.
• The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta.
• At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s.
• Later, along with Antagoras and Aratus, he spent time at the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas.
• Her status as an independent female monarch, and obvious affinity for Roman culture, caused discontent among the Gothic nobles in her court, and she was deposed and killed after six months of sole rule.
•  Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.
• Albert Pike (December 29, 1809April 2, 1891) was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865.
• Battle of Appomattox Court House, a battle of the American Civil War that was a culmination of the Appomattox Campaign and resulted in the surrender of Robert E.
• It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.
• Its capital city is Seville, while the seat of the its High Court of Justice is the city of Granada.
• An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
• Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court.
• The Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, largely takes the form of a first-person memoir by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, concerning the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws (Torah).
• Queen Vashti, the wife of King Ahasuerus, is banished from the court for disobeying the king's orders.
• It is governed by Cameroon, following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice.
• A calendar can also mean a list of planned events, such as a court calendar, or a partly or fully chronological list of documents, such as a calendar of wills.

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