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courthouse
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The Courthouse in Ljubljana , the capital of Slovenia, is a 19th-century building in the central district of the city that has for many years served as the seat of various regional courts of law. The Courthouse was built after the earthquake in 1895 and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from court (n.) + house (n.). In Virginia and the Upper South, it also can mean "county seat."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE federal ▪ William Heath Davis, who subdivided this portion of San Diego in 1850, reserved the block for a federal courthouse . ▪ The second closed the federal courthouse door to some first-time petitioners. ■ NOUN ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a government building that houses the offices of a county government a building that houses judicial courts
Usage examples of courthouse.
It was an unusual experience, for she had always had the knack for getting women to open up, but Kitty was closed to the subject of what had gone on at the Albany courthouse.
Pittsburgh area could no longer make mortgage payments, and foreclosure sales were scheduled, 60 pickets jammed the courthouse to protest the auction, and Allegheny sheriff Eugene Coon halted the proceedings.
Yorktown, Brandywine, Valley Forge, Monmouth Courthouse, Savannah, Guilford Courthouse, Cowpens.
Thirty minutes later the two Cades were at the county courthouse in nearby Murphysboro, where they watched Richard Shuster get the homicide charge against Evan summarily dismissed for lack of evidence.
AK-47s leaned against the courthouse wall in a row neater than the Castalia Invincibles were likely to form.
She wiped her forehead and watched as a heavy woman with five children lumbered across the grassy square of the Chickasaw County Courthouse.
Walter had been a creature of the Kindle County Courthouse since the age of nineteen, when his ward committeeman found him his first job running the elevators, a position which some patronage appointee continued to fill until two years ago, long after the cars were fully automated.
The vine-screened window in which they now talked overlooked the neighboring Temple house, a dignified sentry at the point where the leisured street forsook the chaffer of the town to climb amidst arching elms and maples, above whose gaudy autumn masses rose the dome of the courthouse and the spires of many churches.
The Pagans, like the other Big Four motorcycle gangs, maintain a security and intelligence operation that includes a spy network of women who work in courthouses, motor vehicle administrations and police departments.
Juge in an office like a bank manager, one of a row in a dingy if pompous courthouse, does not look nor sound like Hizzoner the Mayor, but his signature upon a piece of paper is more frightening.
The car turned out from the Jambs onto the highway south, joining the lanes of traffic going to Cascadia, where the county courthouse is.
Detective Division of the Kinderhook County Sheriffs Department occupied a midblock, narrow storefront across the street from the courthouse.
George Caldwell spent hours at the courthouse just a week or so before he died, studying birth records for Lacombe Parish.
They formed their lines in an arc, just north of the intersection, a small village known mainly for the one landmark, the courthouse.
Lowell that, rather than ask about that, Channing chose to change the subject back to the lockdown and the number of media types outside the courthouse.