JUROR
What does "JUROR" mean?
A member of a jury sworn to deliver a verdict in a legal case.
Meanings
- A person serving on a jury who weighs evidence and helps decide a verdict. Each juror was asked whether they could judge the case impartially.
- A member of a panel that judges a competition or contest. As a juror at the film festival, she screened forty shorts in three days.
Word origin
From Anglo-French 'jurour', from Latin 'iurator' (one who swears an oath), from 'iurare' (to swear), from 'ius' (law, right).
Remember it
A JUROR swears an oath: the Latin root 'iurare' means 'to swear', so a juror is literally 'one who is sworn'.
A little poem
Twelve strangers pulled from ordinary days
are handed someone's whole life by a name-
and learn how heavy 'yes' or 'no' can weigh.
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Wordplay
- The juror told the judge he couldn't be impartial - he was already certain he didn't want to be there.
What it teaches
Justice rests on ordinary strangers agreeing to take one stranger's fate seriously for a while.
Quick facts
What does JUROR mean?
A member of a jury sworn to deliver a verdict in a legal case.
Is JUROR a valid word?
Yes — JUROR is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is JUROR?
JUROR has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does JUROR come from?
From Anglo-French 'jurour', from Latin 'iurator' (one who swears an oath), from 'iurare' (to swear), from 'ius' (law, right).
What can JUROR teach us?
Justice rests on ordinary strangers agreeing to take one stranger's fate seriously for a while.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.