high court

1. 1.

   the highest court in most states of the United States

   Synonymssupreme courtstate supreme court

   Broadercourt

   law

Questions about high court

What does high court mean?

high court means "the highest court in most states of the United States".

What is another word for high court?

Close synonyms include supreme court, state supreme court. 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 high court a common word?

high court 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.