judge
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
judge/ʤʌʤ/
▶noun
- 1 a public officer appointed to decide cases in a law court.
■ a person who decides the results of a competition.
■ a person able or qualified to give an opinion: a good judge of character.
- 2 a leader having temporary authority in ancient Israel in the period between Joshua and the kings.
■ give a verdict on (a case or person) in a law court.
■ decide the results of (a competition).
– derivatives
judgeship noun.
judgeship noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. juge (n.), juger (v.), from L. judex, judic-, from jus ‘law’ + dicere ‘to say’.
'judge' also found in these Oxford entries:
accusatorial
- adjudge
- adjudicate
- arbiter
- arbitrary
- arbitration
- bench
- cadi
- camera
- chamber
- chancellor
- charge
- circuit
- come
- Common Serjeant
- connoisseur
- contempt
- convict
- court order
- crime
- critic
- dayan
- deemster
- defer
- determination
- discharge
- estimate
- fail
- find
- gauge
- gavel
- habeas corpus
- haematocrit
- hakim
- hear
- hearing
- hold
- honour
- inquisitorial
- judge advocate
- Judge Advocate General
- judgement
- judicature
- judicial
- jurist
- jury
- justice
- Lord Justice
- lordship
