lawcourt

Questions about lawcourt

What does lawcourt mean?

lawcourt means "a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws".

How many syllables are in lawcourt?

lawcourt has 2 syllables and divides as law-court 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 lawcourt?

Close synonyms include court, court of law, law court, court of justice. 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 lawcourt a common word?

lawcourt 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.