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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lawcourt is a noun meaning "a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws". It carries one recorded sense.
a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lawcourt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.