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 and divides as ju-di-ca-ture under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.