jurisprudence

Other forms of jurisprudence

plural

jurisprudences·

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 jurisprudence

What does jurisprudence mean?

jurisprudence means "the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jurisprudence?

jurisprudence has 4 syllables: jur-i-spru-dence. The stress falls on "spru". In IPA it is /ˌdʒʊɹəˈspɹudəns/.

What is another word for jurisprudence?

Close synonyms include law, legal philosophy, law. 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 jurisprudence a common word?

jurisprudence is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.