COURT
\kˈɔːt], \kˈɔːt], \k_ˈɔː_t]\
Definitions of COURT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a specially marked area within which a game is played; "players had to reserve a court in advance"
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the residence of a sovereign or nobleman; "the king will visit the duke's court"
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the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
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an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
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Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)
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engage in social activities leading to marriage; "We were courting for over ten years"
By Princeton University
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a specially marked area within which a game is played; "players had to reserve a court in advance"
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the residence of a sovereign or nobleman; "the king will visit the duke's court"
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the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
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an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
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Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
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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.
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Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
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Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
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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.
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A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
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The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
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The session of a judicial assembly.
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Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
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A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
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To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
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To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
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To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
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To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
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To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
By Oddity Software
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An inclosed space, or a space for playing games; a smail paved place surrounded by houses; a royal palace; a prince or king with his retinue and ministers considered as a political body; a hall of justice; the place where prisoners are tried; the judges engaged there; the judge hearing a case; as, the court sustained the objection; the session of a judicial assembly; address; flattery.
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To pay attention to, as a lover; solicit.
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To make love.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A space inclosed: a space surrounded by houses: the palace of a sovereign: the body of persons who form his suite or council: attention: civility, as to pay court: (law) the hall of justice: the judges and officials who preside there: any body of persons assembled to decide causes, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
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To pay attentions to: to woo: to solicit: to seek.
By Daniel Lyons
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Space surrounded by houses; palace of a sovereign; body of his attendants; hall of justice; the body of judges; attentions; addresses.
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To pay attentions to; to solicit; to woo.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To woo; seek; solicit.
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Of or pertaining to court.
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A judicial tribunal, or the judge or judges.
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The residence, or the council and retinue, of a sovereign.
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A courtyard or a blind alley.
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Obsequious attention.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A space enclosed by houses; the residence of a king or sovereign prince; persons who compose his retinue or council; place where justice is administered; the judges assembled for hearing and deciding causes; any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical; civility; address to gain favour.
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To endeavour to please by civilities and address; to solicit a woman in marriage; to flatter or woo.
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To act the courtier; to woo. Court of Session, the supreme civil court in Scotland. General court, a state legislature.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An open space of ground attached to a house; a small paved square or space surrounded by houses; the palace of a king, also the persons attached to his person as attendants, council, &c.; a place of justice, likewise the judges and officers engaged there; civility; flattery; the art of pleasing.
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To endeavour to please; to woo or pay addresses to a woman; to solicit; to seek.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] An inclosed space; a yard or area; —the residence of a sovereign or other dignitary; —persons composing the retinue of a sovereign; --the appointed assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; —attention directed to a person in power; conduct designed to gain favour; —a legal tribunal; the judge or judges, as distinguished from the counsel; —the session of a judicial assembly; —the hall where justice is administered; —pl. Places where worship is offered.
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The place where the prince resides, the palace; the hall or chamber where justice is administered; open space before a house; a small opening inclosed with houses and paved with broad stones; persons who compose the retinue of a prince; persons who are assembled for the administration of justice; any jurisdiction, military, civil, or ecclesiastical; the art of pleasing, the art of insinuation.
By Thomas Sheridan
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