Courthouse

Definition: Courthouse

Courthouse

Noun

1. A government building that houses the offices of a county government.

2. A building that houses judicial courts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "courthouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Mining

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Abode

Hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat; courthouse; ghetto.

Crosswords: Courthouse

Cole, this was a legal courthouse. Laws were passed here (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Let's go down to the courthouse and see the room that they locked Boo up in. My aunt says it's bat-infested, and he nearly died from the mildew (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

So they locked him up in the basement of the courthouse till he nearly died of the damp, and his daddy brought him back home (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Courthouse (1995)

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Books

• Courthouse Steps (Tyler, No 11) (reference)

• Courthouse Steps Quilt (reference)

• Find Public Records Fast: The Complete State, County, and Courthouse Locator (reference)

• From Statehouse to Courthouse : An Architectural History of South Carolina's Colonial Capitol and Charleston County Courthouse (reference)

• Guilford Courthouse 1781 (Campaign Series 109) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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This is a picture of the rock formation "Courthouse Rock" in the Eagletails Wilderness Area. Credit: Ron Morfin.

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. Credit: NPS.

Interior, rotunda, general view from east. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November 1976. (Reproduction Number: HABS IOWA,97-SIOCI,3-17) Completed in 1918 to designs by Purcell & Elmslie, the Woodbury County Courthouse is a rare example of a Prairie style design for a large public building. The Prairie style is known for its bold and simple geometric forms and distinctive ornamentation inspired by nature, and was made famous by Louis Sullivan and his student Frank Lloyd Wright, key figures in the Prairie school who developed systems of abstracting architectural decoration from sources in nature. The term Prairie style refers to the style’s origins in the American Midwest, and its evocation of that region’s fertile prairies and flat terrain. The interior rotunda shown here is the focal point of the courthouse. It incorporates simple rectangles and squares with a stained glass dome and uses terra cotta ornament reminiscent of the prairie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Photographed off Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1864-65. Note: identification number "11" painted on Prairie Bird's pilothouse; Vicksburg courthouse on the hilltop in left center. Credit: NAVY.

Schenectady County Courthouse, Schenectady, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ox as "ye oppressed tax-payer" pulling cart of municipal, county, poor, state, courthouse, road, school, and local taxes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Doonesbury. We're outside the courthouse now, talking to network trial artist Erich Newton on his lunch break ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Colonel Mosby's men on courthouse steps, Warrenton, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Press room set up in a courthouse basement at Manchester, N.H., during the trial of Hermann N. Sandfer, a physician, who was acquitted on March 9, 1950 of the "mercy killing" of a cancer patient. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charles City Court House, Va. Rear view of the courthouse. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Children

Iceland

In 2000 the Supreme Court upheld the right of a Reykjavik district court judge to hold an investigatory interview in the courthouse rather than at the center, which has led to a significant decrease in the child sexual abuse cases being handled through the center. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guatemala

The Citizens Movement for Justice and Democracy called for a demonstration at the courthouse. (references)

Tunisia

By the afternoon, dozens of Bensedrine's supporters had come to the courthouse and were dispersed peacefully by police. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Prior to the enactment of the commercial code, creditors of bankrupt persons were often faced with a race to the courthouse with other creditors in order to obtain satisfaction of their claims. (references)

Human Rights

Suriname

On July 14, the lower courthouse burned, and the police suspect arson. (references)

Lebanon

There were no new developments in the case of the June 1999 killings of four judicial officials at a courthouse in Sidon. (references)

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Expressions using "courthouse": battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse ♦ county courthouse ♦ Gloucester Courthouse ♦ Spotsylvania Courthouse. Additional references.

Albanian

ndërtesë e gjyqit, godinë e gjyqit. (various references)

Blackfoot

iitáí'poyo'p. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдебна палата (court), сграда на окръжен съвет. (various references)

Chinese 

法院大楼. (various references)

Czech

soudní budova, soud (bar, court, judgement, judgment, plea). (various references)

Farsi 

کاخ دادگستری , دادگاه (Bar, Court, Courtroom, Forum). (various references)

French

tribunal (court). (various references)

German

Gerichtsgebäude (court house, court-house). (various references)

Greek 

δικαστήριο (assize, bench, court, court of justice, forum, law court, tribunal). (various references)

Hungarian

törvényszék (bar, court, court of justice, court of law, tribunal). (various references)

Indonesian

pengadilan (judiciary, jurisdiction, trial). (various references)

Italian

palazzo di giustizia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裁判所 (court). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さいばんしょ (court). (various references)

Korean 

재판소 (TRIB, tribunal). (various references)

Papago

lothaitakud kih. (various references)

Pig Latin

ourthousecay.(various references)

Romanian

tribunal (bar, court, court of law, law court, tribunal), reşedinţã de comitat. (various references)

Russian 

здание суда. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sud (court, court of justice, cruse, judgement, judiciary, law court, tribunal, vessel). (various references)

Swedish

tingshus (court-house), domstolsbyggnad. (various references)

Ukrainian

будинок суду, поміщицький дім. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "courthouse": courthouses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Courthouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Courthhouse, courtois, courtoisie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: courteous.

-2 letters: cheroots, coutures, ocherous, ochreous, outcurse, outhouse, outscore, scouther, touchers.

-3 letters: cheroot, chooser, chouser, cohorts, cooters, couters, couther, couture, hectors, hooters, ochrous, outecho, outrush, reshoot, retouch, rochets, rotches, rouches, scooter, scouter, sheroot, shooter, shouter, soother, soroche, souther, tochers, torches, toucher, touches, troches.

-4 letters: cerous, cherts, choose, chores, chorus, chouse, chutes, cohort, cohost, cooers.

+1 letter: courthouses.