appellant

1. 1.

   the party who appeals a decision of a lower court

   Synonymsplaintiff in error

   Broaderlitigant

1. 1.

   of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)

   “appellate court”

   Synonymsappellate

   law

Other forms of appellant

plural

appellants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appellant

What does appellant mean?

appellant means "the party who appeals a decision of a lower court". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appellant?

appellant has 3 syllables: ap-pel-lant. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /əˈpɛlɪnt/.

What is another word for appellant?

Close synonyms include plaintiff in error, appellate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appellant a common word?

appellant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.