Definitions for courts

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courts court

Spelling: [kawrt, kohrt]

IPA: /kɔrt, koʊrt/

Courts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in courts (corstu).

Definitions for courts

noun

1. Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
2. an area open to the sky and mostly or entirely surrounded by buildings, walls, etc.
3. a high interior usually having a glass roof and surrounded by several stories of galleries or the like.
4. Chiefly Irish. a stately dwelling.
5. a short street.
6. a smooth, level quadrangle on which to play tennis, basketball, etc.
7. one of the divisions of such an area.
8. the residence of a sovereign or other high dignitary; palace.
9. a sovereign's or dignitary's retinue.
10. a sovereign and councilors as the political rulers of a state.
11. a formal assembly held by a sovereign.
12. homage paid, as to a king.
13. special or devoted attention in order to win favor, affection, etc.:
14. the body of qualified members of a corporation, council, board, etc.
15. a branch or lodge of a fraternal society.
16. Animal Behavior. an area where animals of a particular species gather to display. the group of insects, as honeybees, surrounding the queen; retinue.

Idioms

1. hold court, to have a formal assembly of a judicial tribunal or one held by a sovereign. to be surrounded by one's disciples or admirers, giving advice, exchanging gossip, receiving compliments, etc.
2. out of court, without a legal hearing; privately: out of the question; undeserving of discussion:

verb (used with object)

1. to try to win the favor, preference, or goodwill of:
2. to seek the affections of; woo.
3. (of animals) to attempt to attract (a mate) by engaging in certain species-specific behaviors.
4. to attempt to gain (applause, favor, a decision, etc.).
5. to hold out inducements to; invite.
6. to act in such a manner as to cause, lead to, or provoke:

verb (used without object)

1. to seek another's love; woo.
2. (of animals) to engage in certain species-specific behaviors in order to attract individuals of the opposite sex for mating.

Origin of courts

1125-75; Middle English co(u)rt Anglo-French, Old French Latin cohort- (stem of cohors) farmyard; see cohort

Examples for courts

It might give jurisdictional privileges: a right to hold court with greater or less franchises.

Neither can he hold court—receive his vassals and dispense justice—save at intervals.

Peter of Russia was right: the sovereigns of England, the sea-rulers, should hold court in Greenwich.

For many years it was a most unhealthy place to hold court in.

Do you know anything about the new judge who is going to hold court to-day?

A judge could not hold court unless he had a military escort.

But mind now, you've got to sleep in this room every time you come to hold court in Ramsey.

This week we are to hold court here, but I do not imagine anything will be done.

Then, three weeks later, if the docket permitted, he went on to Raleigh to hold court there for a few days.

Drowned in wreck of the Speedy, while on his way to hold court.