courthouse
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈkɔːrthaus/
:
palacio de justicia
- I remember your great-grandfather coming out onto the courthouse steps, holding your father's hand.
- county courthouse
- federal courthouse
- get to the courthouse
We just like fell in love, went to the courthouse, still in love.
- We just like fell in love, went to the courthouse, still in love.
- Going into the state courthouse is rough and tumble stuff.
- He may give his talents at the courthouse, the State House, the White House.
- And they were meeting in the courthouse in Uniondale, Long Island, twice a month.
- But a short sale is not a foreclosure at the courthouse steps.
- This was taken in front of a statue of Blackstone in front of the courthouse in DC.
- So they, yeah, they did the hearings in, in the federal courthouse in Tucson.
- And this has to do with a landmark in Oxford, which is the courthouse square.
- I mean, one thing though, So right now most courthouses are down to what they're called a skeleton crew.
- They didn't have sets yet so we shot in a real Queens County Courthouse.
- Some of those guys had worked on the Oklahoma bombings, the courthouse bombing in the federal building in Oklahoma.
- Rolling into the state courthouse is rough and tumble stuff.
Examples
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After that, the former courthouse was used as a municipal office building.
Academic text (2017) -
You were right about the value of going to the courthouse to check documents.
Fiction book (1991) -
We can go down to the courthouse, get married, then leave if it makes it easier.
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"I met a woman at the county courthouse who says she knows you," I said.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now for more on this story, we go live to the courthouse and Roy Wood Junior.
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Is this the municipal courthouse?
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I went up to the sixth floor of the courthouse in the elevator.
Fiction book (1992) -
So Jordan Klepper went down to the courthouse to bear witness to the chaos.
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One afternoon, Will Forrest walked up the stone stairs to the courthouse and went inside.
Fiction book (1990) -
The judge held a hearing at the courthouse to review the evidence.
Synonyms
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1.4
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
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3.2
A place where a judge hears and decides cases about the law
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5.8
The location where a trial or legal case is heard
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3.1
A place where a judge hears cases and gives decisions
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3.8
A place where judges decide legal cases and apply the law
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
Compounds
A major American Civil War battle in Virginia in May 1864 between Grant and Lee
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Courthouse is made of two simple parts: court and house. Court originally meant a 'place where leaders or judges met' and house means 'building', so a courthouse is the building where a court meets and legal cases are heard.