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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
courtroom
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a courtroom drama (=about events in a court)
▪ The lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason was the hero of 82 courtroom dramas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drama
▪ There are a lot of courtroom drama books and serial killer tales about, but this one is special.
▪ Her stories of courtroom drama had a strong effect.
▪ If he had his way this would be a five-hour courtroom drama with Sonny playing himself in the role.
■ VERB
leave
▪ As he was leaving the courtroom he collapsed.
▪ I can feel his eyes on me as I leave the courtroom.
▪ As they left the courtroom Ford tried to speak to Mitchum, but Geisler barred his way.
▪ As he left the courtroom, Franco appeared calm, smiling and chatting with Teich and his interpreter.
▪ Everybody knew Al was vicious in the courtroom, but they knew he left it in the courtroom.
pack
▪ So back to California he presumably went, without being given the chance to display his profundities before a packed courtroom.
▪ Shipman stared straight ahead as the foreman of the jury read out the verdict tothe packed courtroom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A fight broke out in a London courtroom yesterday.
▪ Roberts told a packed courtroom of the events that occurred on the night of the murder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a witness, courtroom observers described him as alternately charming and evasive.
▪ But most of you are not qualified to walk into a courtroom.
▪ He opened it and read what only twelve other people in the courtroom could have known.
▪ In the courtrooms, we hear our hometown lawyers pleading to a jury of our neighbors.
▪ Norris emphasized his 29 years of experience and his continued courtroom work prosecuting felony cases.
▪ Outside the Santiago courtroom the victims gathered to read the judges' decision and console one another.
▪ The courtroom was the diminutive Carman's stage, where he played carefully to the jury with meticulously prepared gestures and phrases.
▪ The firm's woes are not confined to the courtroom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
courtroom

1670s, from court (n.) + room (n.).

Wiktionary
courtroom

n. The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.

WordNet
courtroom

n. a room in which a law court sits; "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom" [syn: court]

Wikipedia
Courtroom

A courtroom is the enclosed space in which courts of law are held in front of a judge. A number of courtrooms, which may also be known as "courts", may be housed in a courthouse. The schedule of official court proceedings is called a docket.

Usage examples of "courtroom".

Senate committee and the mess in his courtroom over this wrongful death case, apparently that insane law clerk is sending you a copy of his instructions to the jury just to make things more difficult for everyone since that seems to be his main purpose in life and, what is it now Lily.

It was in the courtrooms of Massachusetts and on the printed page, principally in the newspapers of Boston, that Adams had distinguished himself.

Tobias is arraigned on a charge of violation of the Sullivan law, which is a law against carrying rods, and the courtroom is packed with citizens eager to see a character desperate enough to lug twelve rods, and among these citizens are many dolls, pulling and hauling for position, and some of these dolls are by no means crows.

I had seen the mob surge forward in the courtroom and tear Carreta, once governor of the Regina Coeli prison and chief witness for the prosecution, from the hands of the Carabinieri, had seen him beaten unconscious, thrown from the Ponte Umberto into the Tiber and beaten to death by oars.

Kaarsten had gazed at pictures of the bodies of Jody and Peri Lynn on the corkboard in front of the courtroom through most of the trial and had never shown a trace of emotion.

One courtroom sports a cycloramic mural that depicts the settling of Santa Teresa by the early Spanish missionaries.

But at the trial, neither Schultz nor Durfee could say with certainty that the gun shown to them in the courtroom was the same one they had looked at the night of the murder.

That was the point at which Dennis Stull arrived from Erfurt and was escorted into the courtroom by the bailiff.

Months later, that picture would be juxtaposed with the grieving faces of other attendees on a large screen in a California courtroom.

The verdict that Lukan was guilty of heresy on all counts and would be executed the next day had shocked the courtroom.

It was as though Donnelly and Mauk had decided that the courtroom needed a change of air.

Mike Donnelly and Bill Mauk emerged from the courtroom to the applause of the Dallas Cheerleaders.

AFTER JUDGE MAYER called the crowded courtroom to order, Counselor Ponzi leaped to his feet.

WEEK THIS very same Riverhead courtroom was filled with a sickening indifference.

The courtroom was not as packed with spectators as it had been for the trial of Frankie Silver, for no momentous crimes were set to be tried and no sensational testimony was in the offing, but since no court day goes unmarked by the curious and the scandalmongers, there was no shortage of spectators for the proceedings.