judicature

Other forms of judicature

plural

judicatures·

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 judicature

What does judicature mean?

judicature means "an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in judicature?

judicature has 4 syllables: ju-di-ca-ture. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for judicature?

Close synonyms include court, tribunal, judiciary, judicatory, judicial system. 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 judicature a common word?

judicature 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.