COURT
What does "COURT" mean?
A place where legal cases are heard, or the officials who hear them.
Meanings
- A body that administers justice, or the room where trials are held. The case will go to court in the spring.
- A marked, level area for playing games such as tennis or basketball. They booked the tennis court for an hour before dark.
- The residence and retinue of a monarch or noble. The poet sought favor at the king's court.
- To try to win someone's love or favor, often with marriage in mind. He courted her for two years before proposing.
- To deliberately risk or invite something undesirable. By ignoring the warnings, they were courting disaster. figurative
Did you know?
- The legal 'court', the tennis 'court', and the royal 'court' all trace to Latin 'cohors', an enclosed yard - the same root that gives us 'cohort'.
Word origin
From Latin 'cohors' / 'cohortem' (an enclosed yard, also a cohort of soldiers), via Old French 'cort'; the enclosed royal yard gave rise to the royal household and, later, the hall of justice.
Remember it
Every COURT is an enclosed space: walls of law, lines of a tennis court, gates of a king - all yards you enter to be judged or to win.
A little poem
The same word holds the judge, the king, the game,
the lover at the gate who learns to wait.
Each is an enclosed yard of trial and aim-
you enter small, and leave by some new fate.
quatrain
Wordplay
- The tennis player kept losing his lawsuit. Turns out he was no good in any court.
What it teaches
Every court is a bounded space where you are measured; choose carefully which ones you step into.
Quick facts
What does COURT mean?
A place where legal cases are heard, or the officials who hear them.
Is COURT a valid word?
Yes — COURT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is COURT?
COURT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does COURT come from?
From Latin 'cohors' / 'cohortem' (an enclosed yard, also a cohort of soldiers), via Old French 'cort'; the enclosed royal yard gave rise to the royal household and, later, the hall of justice.
What can COURT teach us?
Every court is a bounded space where you are measured; choose carefully which ones you step into.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.