superior court

1. 1.

   any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court

   Broadercourt

   law

Questions about superior court

What does superior court mean?

superior court means "any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court".

Is superior court a common word?

superior court 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.