COURT

noun the session of a judicial assembly.

2. court ·noun any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

3. court ·noun a tribunal established for the administration of justice.

4. court ·noun the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

5. court ·vi to play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

6. court ·noun the judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

7. court ·noun any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.

8. court ·noun the residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

9. court ·vt to attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

10. court ·vt to endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

11. court ·vt to invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

12. court ·noun a place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

13. court ·vt to endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

14. court ·noun attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

15. court ·noun the collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

xvi. court ·noun an inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

xvii. court ·noun the persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.